(Hill) – Former Health and Human Services Director Kathleen Severius said Wednesday that he “can’t imagine” how Florida parents would protect their children while moving to end all school vaccine orders.
“Florida has issued some horrific guidance suggesting that it will remove all vaccine mandates for school children,” Severius appeared on CNN’s “CNN News Central” on Wednesday.
“If I was a Florida parent, if my child was thinking of sending her child to school, I can’t imagine what to do, where I’m thinking of sending her to a school where I don’t know if there’s an outbreak of measles, if God forbids it, or if polio will reappear.
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Florida surgeon General Joseph Radapop compares current vaccination requirements with slavery, causing rage among health experts and vaccine advocates, saying a vaccine shortage causes an outbreak of illness.
LADAPO is leading efforts to remove vaccine requirements from Florida schools. This is on the path of Robert F. Kennedy Jr., who said earlier this year that the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) would not recommend COVID-19 vaccines for healthy children and pregnant women.
“In my lifetime, the CDC was the standard of public health that not only was this place, but countries around the world emulated it,” Sebelius told CNN. “And in about seven months we’ve seen secretaries with no long history of scientific background, training, and vaccine skepticism. And making money on the appeal of vaccine companies will start to dismantle what the protective shield is around Americans.”
“It’s about health safety, and as we learned with Covid, this is about our economic security. Another infectious disease we haven’t prepared will overthrow the entire economy.
Last week, the CDC director was removed by the Trump administration, and four senior officials resigned, citing “weaponization of public health.”
“For the benefit of the nation and the world, CDC science should never be censored or subject to political suspension or interpretation,” former CDC chief medical officer Debra Howey wrote in his resignation. “Vaccinations save lives – this is an indisputable, established, scientific fact.”
She added, “The exaggeration of risk and the rise of misinformation will cost lives.”
Other officials agreed, saying the new policies are beginning to lean further further from scientific data and evidence, and further towards political pursuits.
“Because of the continued weaponization of public health, I can no longer serve this role,” said Demetre C. Daskalakis, former director of the National Center for Vaccination and Respiratory Diseases.
