The debate to inoculate

Florida became the first state in the union to announce a move to end vaccine mandates in public schools. That decision came just as Health and Human Services (HHS) Secretary Robert Kennedy Jr.’s anti-vaccine policies came under bipartisan scrutiny in the Senate.

The issue created an instant divide in Florida’s congressional delegation, and it didn’t crack along purely partisan lines.

Sen. Rick Scott told Axios reporter Marc Caputo that Gov. Ron DeSantis erred by demanding an end to vaccine requirements for polio, measles-mumps-rubella, chickenpox, Hepatitis B and other diseases.

“Florida already has a good system that allows families to opt out based on religious and personal beliefs, which balances our children’s health and parents’ rights,

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