TAMPA, Fla. - The moment Governor Ron DeSantis and Florida Surgeon General Joseph Ladapo said the state would push to end vaccine mandates , researchers at the University of Florida and Stanford University began their inquiries about what that would look like.

"If you look at all 50 states, Florida would be towards the top of risks of states that you really worry about in terms of risk of reemergence of vaccine-eliminate diseases," said Dr. Nathan Lo, a researcher at Stanford.

Because of religious and medical exemptions, inoculation of kindergartners is already down from a pre-pandemic high of 95% to a post-pandemic low of 89%.

"We're already getting dangerously low in terms of coverage in Florida," said UF researcher Ira Longini.

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