Florida’s surgeon general, Joseph Ladapo, has announced plans to end all state vaccine mandates, including for children to attend schools, likening the mandates to “slavery.”

“Every last one of them is wrong and drips with disdain and slavery,” Ladapo said at a news conference in Tampa on Wednesday. “Who am I as a government or anyone else, or who am I as a man standing here now to tell you what to do with your body?”

“People have a right to make their own decisions, informed decisions,” he added.

Republican Governor Ron DeSantis also announced on Wednesday the creation of a state-level “Make America Healthy Again” commission modelled after similar initiatives pushed at the federal level by Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F Kennedy Jr.

The state Health Department, Ladapo sa

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