Republicans on Capitol Hill are sounding alarms over Florida’s move to end vaccine mandates for schoolchildren, voicing fears about the spread of preventable infectious diseases and what it means for their home states.

The apprehensions highlight the internal GOP divide over both the public health benefits of vaccines and the powers of government at any level to require residents to obtain those inoculations in the name of community safety.

“Vaccinations have proven to be — the basic ones — helpful in preventing the spread of measles, polio and other things,” Sen. Shelley Moore Capito (R-W.Va.) said. “My children are vaccinated, my grandchildren are vaccinated. I don’t agree with that.”

The charged issue had already been front and center under President Trump, whose pick to lead the Hea

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