The state of Florida recently announced that it would eliminate the mandatory child vaccination, including vaccines of diseases such as measles, polio, hepatitis B and chickenpox, among others.
Promoted by Governor Ron Desantis and his general surgeon Joseph Ladapo, the proposal – their managers say – seeks to “prioritize medical freedom” and “informed consent” on state requirements.
Just one day after the official announced his plan to eliminate the requirement of vaccines for primary school children and other groups, a pitched battle is anticipated that, without a doubt, will reach the courts.
The Democratic leader of the Floridano Senate, Lori Berman, He said he will fight to “protect our children from these reckless attempts to harm them.”
“Republicans have gone from hosting anti -scientific conspiracy to fully support an anti -scientific health policy,” he said. “As a member of the Senate Health Policy Committee, I will do my best to protect our children from these reckless attempts to harm them.”
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“This is a public health disaster for the state of the sun,” said the Democratic representative Anna Eskamani. In addition to protecting people who are vaccinated, generalized vaccination in a community protects babies too small to receive them, as well as people whose conditions prevent them from vaccinating. ”
But it is not a party problem with dry. The Florida Medical Associationwho supported Desantis when he first ran as governor (2018), rejected the end of vaccine obligation.
“The Florida Medical Association unequivocally supports the vaccination and immunization of school -age children against diseases that endangered our children’s lives,” he said in a statement.
The rest was predictable. As expected, a strong reaction by public health experts, educators and doctors has been expected. They warn that this move, if approved, could cause an increase in the spread of preventable diseases such as measles, people’s cough and polyomyelitis.
Secretary RFK Jr. in Congress
The news coincides, on the one hand, with the dismissal of Dr. Susan Monarez, until recently director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) after resisting supporting little scientific directives, typical of the Trump administration and its most visible face, the Secretary of Human Health and Services, Robert F. Kennedy Jr.
The ruling announced it: “Susan Monarez is no longer director of the CDC.” And the White House, through its spokesperson, Kush Desai, announced that “he was fired for refusing to resign and not align with the agenda of President Donald Trump and his MAKING AMERICA HEALTHY AGAIN”
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His dismissal caused the departure of five senior CDC officials, including Demetre Daskalakis, former director of the National Immunization and Respiratory Diseases Center. “The wall between science and ideology has collapsed completely,” affirmed The scientist in This Weekof ABC News.
But not just that. Several public health organizations and more than a thousand employees – actual and previous – of the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) have publicly expressed concern about the direction of that government entity under Kennedy and for the decisions that have been made recently, in the understanding that they could affect the ability to respond to infectious diseases almost completely eradicated precisely precisely thanks to vaccines.
They criticized him for saying goodbye, drastically restrict access to vaccines against COVID-19 and replace senior public health officials with “political ideologues that They are passed through experts scientists”.
On the other hand, Florida also coincided with a session of the Senate Finance Committee with Kennedy Jr., characterized by high decibels exchanges with Democratic senators on vaccination policies, as well as for the effects of Monaz’s dismissal and its impact on CDC.
What was on the table was the politicization of the vaccines and promises of the official, made at the audience for confirmation, in the sense of not interfering in scientific decisions based on his well -known anti -vacuum history.
It was therefore questioned by many Democratic legislators. But, as in the case of Florida, it was not an entirely supportive matter, since several Republicans joined the criticisms of the former. John Barasso, Republican for Wyoming, said: “Secretary Kennedy, in his confirmation hearings promised to keep the highest vaccines standards. Since then, I am deeply worried “.
And later: “The public has witnessed measles outbreaks, the questioning of the use of messenger RNA vaccines [una vacuna de nueva generación que enseña a las células a producir una proteína para que el sistema inmunitario aprenda a reconocer y defenderse de un virus] by leaders of the National Health Institutes ”.
To finish off, he said that Americans “do not know who to trust” and that there was “a real concern that safe and proven vaccines, such as measles and hepatitis B, could be in danger.”
On the other side, Democrat Raphael Warnock snapped at close range that was a “threat to the American people.” RFK Jr. asked: “How can I be a threat?” “You are a danger to the health of the American people,” he replied. “I think I should give up.”
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But he wasn’t alone. The former representative Joe Kennedy III, of Massachusetts, the secretary’s nephew, described the uncle as “threat to the health and well -being of all Americans” having chosen to “ignore science, deceive the public, marginalize experts and sow confusion.”
And he continued: “None of us will get rid of the pain he is inflicting. No matter how rich or powerful it is one or in what living state; the anguish of seeing a loved one sickness does not know borders. The challenges we face, from disease outbreaks to mental health crises, demand moral clarity, scientific experience and leadership based on the facts. Those values are not present in the secretary’s office. You must give up. ”
JFK’s daughter, Caroline Kennedy, cousin of the secretary and former ambassador in Australia, He had warned From the beginning. The health community of the country, said last January, “with all its deficiencies,” deserves “a secretary committed to the advance of avant -garde medicine to save lives, without rejecting the progress that we have already achieved. It deserves a stable, moral and ethical person at the head of this crucial agency. He deserves something better than Bobby Kennedy. We too.”
