Florida will move to end all vaccine mandates in the state, Florida Surgeon General Joseph Ladapo announced at a news conference Wednesday.

The move would make Florida the first state to end a longstanding – and constitutionally upheld – practice of requiring certain vaccines for school students.

The state health department will immediately move to end all non-statutory mandates in the state, Ladapo said. Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis, who was also at the event, said state lawmakers would then look into developing a legislative package to end any remaining mandates.

Ladapo said that every vaccine mandate “is wrong and drips with disdain and slavery.”

All 50 states have had school immunization requirements since the beginning of the 1980s, with incoming kindergartners needing shots to pro

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