In Florida, parents ponder future with fewer vaccines

Masson Ibn Kammi Norwood was “jumping with joy” in thinking about the start of the public school next year in Palmo, Florida.

Mrs. Norwood said that the four -year -old, who was diagnosed with kidney disease in the fourth stage at birth, spent two health years without any visits in the hospital, and eager to be in the separation with friends.

But the 32 -year -old mother began to reconsider her immune son’s sending to school, after Florida’s surgeon announced last year that he would try to end vaccine delegations in the state, including those who belong to school children.

“It is frightening,” said Mrs. Norwood. “If these children are not vaccinated … he can get very sick if someone will come with measles.”

Medical experts and some parents are concerned that the surgeon’s move will threaten the health of weak children such as Mason, which paves the way for a new era of infectious diseases, driven by low vaccine rates.

“We will finally finish with pockets of the outbreak of different types of infectious diseases,” Scott Reefz, a former surgeon in Florida, told the BBC. “The older individuals, adults and children with immunodeficiency who may suffer from cancer, for example, will be afraid to go out to public places.”

If Florida advanced, it will be one of the first states to officially get rid of childhood vaccination mandates, which has long been a player in parental plans to school. In April, the governor of Idahu signed the law of reducing vaccine requirements.

These moves come at a time when Health Minister Robert F. Kennedy Junior, a skeptical vaccine, pledges to reshape the United States vaccine policy and the country’s public health agency, CDC centers (CDC), in a state of disturbances.

When the surgeon, General Joseph Ladubo, announced the wounds in Florida the effort earlier this month, the current states likened “slavery”, saying that parents should have a choice in the end.

His efforts are supported by Republican ruler Ron Desantis, while leading medical organizations, including the American Academy of Pediatrics, oppose the plan.

Ladapo did not provide details, and his office did not respond to a request for comment from the BBC. However, the Associated Press told the Associated Press that within 90 days, it will raise school delegations regarding hepatitis B, Saidepox, and HIB influenza and pneumococcal diseases.

Medical experts told the BBC that lifting states on other vaccines requires a change in the Florida Administrative Law, which will have to go to the state legislature.

The advertisement worries from Megan Pethard, a mother of two children in Lake County, Florida. Two 39 -year -old and 39 -year -old children are fortified, but she knows many parents in her town that is not her children.

She said: “To hear that there will be the possibility of some of these preventive diseases that can be prevented, it becomes a Petri according to our site is annoying.” “Why do we not want to protect ourselves, and why do we not want to protect our neighbors?”

But Dana Fernandez, from Longood, Florida, was “pleased” to the policy of Ladabo.

She moved with her family from New York – which does not allow religious exemptions to vaccines – to Florida, so she can fix three unborn twins of six -year -old at the public school with waiver.

“I support the right of parents to decide on themselves what they feel suitable for their child,” she said. “But I do not support you imposing what I should do.”

accident reconnaissance From the non -profitable KFF company indicates that the vast majority – about 80 % – of parents in Florida and through the United States they want vaccine requirements for public schools.

Dr. Rivkiz, Professor of University Health for Public Health, said that Florida has a relatively high vaccination rate, although the number of religious exemptions for the footage has grown in recent years.

With the growth of exemptions, Megan Martin, an emergency medical doctor at Johns Hopkins Hospital at the Children’s Hospital in Florida, said she has seen more outbreaks of vents in vaccines in recent years.

She said that the cases of whooping cough, or whooping cough, for example, were rare, but it is now a monthly event. In 2024, the thick cough was ill more than 700 fluorides, up from only 85 cases in 2023. The state also witnessed several measles cases last year, as the United States fought the worst infection in the infection, which led to three deaths, including two children In Texas.

Dr. Martin said that policy can increase the vaccination rates in the state, which leads to a more severe disease and possibly overcrowding hospitals.

In an interview with CNN, Ladapo said on Sunday that his ministry had not analyzed data on how to change policy on the outbreak of diseases that can be cut in vaccines.

“Do I need to analyze whether it is appropriate for parents to be able to determine what is happening in the bodies of their children? You do not need an analysis on that,” he said.

Pushing the new policy of Florida on vaccines follow the ongoing efforts of Kennedy to change American regulations and recommendations. As the informal leader of the so -called “Make America Healthy”, or Maha for a short period, the Minister of Health was open about his baseless fears regarding the connection between vaccines and autism.

Since he took leadership in the US Department of Health and Humanitarian Services (HHS), Kennedy has launched hundreds of health officials in an attempt to clarify what he considered “corruption”. All members of the Independent Consultative Committee overthrew the vaccines before replacing them with many skeptics of vaccines, and the recommendations of Covid-19 reinforced footage were narrowed.

Last week, Susan Monares Susan Monarerez, who said the reason was her rejection of the stamps of the rubber stamps from the new vaccine committee.

Dimitri Dascalakis, the former director of the National Center at the Center for Investigation and respiratory diseases, said the changes are confusing for parents, patients and doctors who are trying to follow vaccine instructions.

Dr. Daslakis, who resigned in protest against the overthrow of Dr. Monares, said that when patients are confused, their general reaction “does nothing” – or refraining from obtaining vaccines.

“This means more infections, more hospitals, more disability and more death,” he said.

Dr. Revakiz, the former general surgeon in Florida, said that Kennedy’s Kennedy’s Anti -Qahil’s speech had opened a door to Ladabu.

“When you have someone in Washington, a person responsible for the health of the entire country, and does things to undermine vaccination at many different levels, this will definitely strike an explicit tendon for individuals like the mind,” he said.

She said Kennedy’s resonance with Mrs. Fernandez and others in her community who share many “Make America healthy goals again”. “I am pleased with their position,” she said about Ladapo and Kennedy.

Dr. Rana Alya, head of the Florida branch at the American Academy of Pediatrics, said that if the Minister of Health supports scientists and experts, Florida will not try to change the laws of vaccines.

“The world is watching,” she said. “It is dangerous … will cost life.”