Florida is planning to end school vaccine mandates.

That's where we're starting the seven from the Washington Post.

I'm Hannah Jewell. It's Thursday, September 4th.

Let's get you caught up with today's seven stories.

Yesterday, Florida's

Surgeon General Joseph Latipo announced plans

to end all state vaccine mandates.

That includes the shots required

for children to attend school.

At a news conference,

Latipo described the mandates as slavery, and he said this.

Your body, your body is a gift from God. What you put into your body, what you put into your body

is because of your relationship with your body and your God.

I don't have that right.

Government does not have that right.

The move will require legislative action.

But if lawmakers sign off on it, Florida would become the first state to completely withdraw from a practice that's credited with boosting vaccination

rates and controlling the spread of infectious diseases. It comes as the Trump administration

and health secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. have been pushing to upend U.S. vaccine policy.

Kennedy is scheduled to testify before a congressional committee today about

upheaval at the CDC. Last week, the White House fired the CDC director. That spurred the resignation

of senior agency leaders in protest. A judge ruled that the Trump administration cannot withhold funding from Harvard.

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