Health officials in Florida released more details about how they're moving to end many school vaccination mandates.

Public health experts are worried about the impact on children in the state and whether other states may follow.

William Brigham has that story.

Umna, yesterday's announcement came days after Florida's Surgeon General.

Dr. Joseph Lodapo said the state would be the first

to ban all vaccine requirements. This new policy for school children won't take effect for

about 90 days, and it would end the requirement that kids are inoculated against diseases like

hepatitis B, chickenpox, influenza, and meningitis.

The state legislature could take it further and consider removing requirements for measles and polio as well.

In announcing the change last week, Dr. Lodapo spoke out against vaccine mandates saying it was a matter of personal freedom. Every last one of them is wrong and

drips with disdain and slavery. Okay. Who am I as a government or anyone else or who am I as a man

standing here now to tell you what you should put in your body.

Doctors in Florida are warning this change could put children and their communities at risk.

One of those is Dr. Mona Amin. She's a pediatrician in Florida and host of the Peds Doc podcast.

For the record, we invited Dr. LaDapo on the show,

but he declined our request. Dr. Rameen, thank you so much for being here. When you first heard

the Surgeon General's comments specifically linking vaccine mandates to slavery, what was your

reaction? Oh, thank you for having me. The reaction was swift in feeling disheartening, demoralizing,

and frustrating. One, the comparison with vaccine mandates and slavery is not founded.

Obviously, vaccine mandates are there for a reason to protect people when we can go into

a whole other

tangent on slavery was not the same situation. And as a pediatrician who spends so much time

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