Florida State Surgeon General Says No Data Used In Vaccine Mandate Rollback

State surgeon general says that the decision was made without any data analysis on potential outbreaks

Florida is taking the unprecedented step of dismantling its school vaccine mandates, a policy that no other state in modern U.S. history has attempted.

The rollback, announced by Governor Ron DeSantis and Surgeon General Dr. Joseph Ladapo, began with changes to requirements for hepatitis B and chickenpox.

During an interview with CNN’s Jake Tapper, Dr. Ladapo confirmed that his department did not conduct any data analysis or projections to determine how this change could affect outbreaks of diseases like measles, polio, or whooping cough.

When pressed, he stated that such modeling was unnecessary because the issue is fundamentally one of parents’ rights and bodily autonomy, not public