If it passes, Florida will be the first in the nation to eliminate all vaccine mandates for children and adults. Other vaccines, including those for chickenpox, hepatitis B and strep infections, are mandated by the state health department, as opposed to Florida’s Legislature. Ladapo has long been a leading critic of vaccines, especially mRNA vaccines developed to combat the COVID-19 pandemic. In announcing the plan to end all vaccine requirements in Florida, he said: “Every last one of them is wrong and drips with disdain and slavery.”Public health and child health professionals condemned the move. The Florida commission will be chaired by the governor’s wife, Casey DeSantis.