Florida’s plan to remove all vaccine mandates will not lead to infectious disease outbreaks, the state’s surgeon general, Dr. Joseph Ladapo, has said.
Ladapo announced on Sept. 3 the plan to remove the mandates. In a new interview, he said the effort to remove mandates is motivated by a desire to restore bodily sovereignty, but he rejected critics’ claims that it will reduce vaccination rates.
“I think that you can have both,” Ladapo told EpochTV’s “American Thought Leaders” in an interview that will be released on Oct. 4. “I think you can have a moral environment for providing vaccinations, and you can have a high uptake of vaccines that are effective at preventing a transmission to other people.”…