In Florida parents reflect on the future with fewer vaccines

The son of Norwood Mason “jumps with joy” at the thought of starting a state school next year in Palmetto, Florida.

A four -year -old guy, who was diagnosed with stage 4, spent two healthy years without visiting hospitals, and seeks to study in class with friends, said Ms Norwood.

But the 32-year-old mother begins to revise, sending to school his immunity, after Last week, Florida General announced that he would try to stop the mandates on the state, including for schoolchildren.

“It’s just scary,” said Mrs. Norwood. “If these children are not vaccinated … He can become very sick when someone comes with measles.”

Medical experts and some parents are worried that the step of the general surgeon threatens the health of vulnerable children, such as Maison, creating the basis for the new era of infectious diseases caused by lower vaccine levels.

“We will have pockets of outbreaks of different types of infectious diseases,” said BBC Former General Surgeon Florida Scott Jerk. “Persons who are older, immunity adults and children who can conclude cancer, for example, will be afraid to go to public.”

When Florida goes forward, it will be one of the first states to officially get rid of the mandates for childhood vaccination, which have long become a parent’s adaptation to school. In April, Governor Idaho signed the requirements for the law.

These steps come when Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy -Youth, a vaccine that is engaged in a skeptic, reworking the US vaccine policy, and a healthcare center, a disease control and prevention centers (CDC).

When Florida Joseph Ladap, General Surgeon, announced his efforts earlier this month, he compared existing mandates with “slavery”, saying that the parents should have a choice.

His efforts are supported by Republican Governor Ron Tsyanis, while leading medical organizations, including the US Academy of Pediatrics, oppose this plan.

Ladap did not propose specifics, and his office did not respond to a request for BBC comment. But the Florida health department told The Associated Press that in 90 days it would raise school mandates on vaccines at hepatitis B, windmill, flu and pneumococcal diseases.

The cancellation of the mandates to other vaccines will require changes in the Florida Administrative Code, which should pass through the state legislative body, BBC medical experts said.

The report is disturbed by Megan Bichard, the mother of two in the Lake, Florida. Two age of 39 years of age at the age of eight and three are already vaccinated, but she knows several parents in her city whose children are not.

“To hear that there will be the potential of some of these very preventive diseases that become Petri’s dish here, in our place,” she said. “Why don’t we want to protect ourselves and why don’t we want to protect our neighbors?”

But Dana Fernandez from Longwood, Florida, was “delighted” by Ladap.

She moved with her family from New York – which does not allow the religious exceptions of the vaccines – in Florida, so her six -year -old negative triplets could attend a state school with refusal.

“I support my parents’ right to decide what they consider to be right for their child,” she said. “But I don’t support you, referring to what I have to do.”

Recent overview From a non -profit health organization KFF, the vast majority – about 80% – parents in Florida and in the United States want the vaccine requirements for public schools.

Florida has a relatively high level of vaccination, although in recent years the number of religious liberations for shots has grown, – said D -Rivka, professor at the University School of Public Health.

As the exceptions were expelled, Megan Martin, a pediatric fast medicine physician at John Hopkins, all children’s hospitals in Florida said there have been more outbreaks associated with the vaccine in recent years.

For example, the cases of whooping cough or whooping cough were rare, but now on a monthly basis, she said. In 2024 more than 700 Floridians became ill, compared to only 85 cases in 2023. Last year, the state also considered several measles cases when the US fought its terrible infection over the decades, leading to three deaths, including two children, including two children In Texas.

D -R Martin said the policy could further reduce the vaccination in the state, which will lead to more serious illnesses and potentially overpopulated hospitals.

In an interview with CNN Ladap said on Sunday that his department did not analyze the data on how policy change could affect the outbreaks of the vaccine.

“Do I need to analyze whether my parents can decide what to go into the bodies of their children? I do not need to analyze it,” he said.

Florida’s new vaccine policy should be constantly efforts to change the US rules and recommendations. As an unofficial leader of the so -called movement “Make America Healthy” or Short Maha, the Minister of Health is open about his unjustified problems regarding the communication between vaccines and autism.

Since the invasion of the US Ministry of Health and Human Services (HHS), Kennedy has fired hundreds of health officials, trying to eradicate what he perceives as “corruption”. He dismissed all members of the Independent Advisory Committee on the vaccine before replacing them with several vaccine skeptics, and narrowed the COVID-19 frame.

Last week, he caused a backlash when CDC Muzen Monores fired his head, which said she was refusing to stamp the new vaccine stamp.

The changes are confused for parents, patients and doctors trying to follow the guidelines of the vaccine, said Demeter Dasakalakis, former director of the CDC National Center for immunization and respiratory diseases.

D -ri Dasakalakis, who resigned in protest from Dr. Monores’ failure, said that when patients are confused, their overall reaction is “to do nothing” or refrain from getting vaccines.

“It will mean more infections, more hospitalizations, greater disability and greater death,” he said.

Dr. Rivki, former General Surgeon Florida, said the anti-Vacova rhetoric Kennedy had opened the door for Ladap.

“If you have anyone in Washington, someone who is responsible for the health of the whole country, doing things to blow vaccination at a variety of levels, it will certainly get into a resonant chord for people who are configured,” he said.

Kennedy’s views resonated with Mrs. Fernandez and others in her community, which share several goals “make America healthy,” she said. “I’m delighted with their position,” she said about Ladap and Kennedy.

D -Rana Alice, President of the head of the Florida Academy of Pediatrics, said if the Minister of Health supports scientists and experts, Florida would not try to change her vaccine laws.

“The world is looking,” she said. “It’s dangerous … It will cost life.”