Florida is set to end all vaccine mandates in the state, Gov. Ron DeSantis and Surgeon General Dr. Joseph Ladapo announced Wednesday.

The announcement was made at a news conference where DeSantis cited "medical freedom" for the move, while Ladapo compared vaccines to "slavery."

"Every last one of them is wrong and drips with disdain and slavery," Ladapo said. "Who am I as a man standing here to tell you what you should put in your body? Who am I to tell you what your child should put in your body?"

The state Health Department, Ladapo said, can scrap its own rules for some vaccine mandates, but others would require action by the Florida Legislature. He did not specify any particular vaccines but repeated several times the effort would end “all of them. Every last one of them.”

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