Florida Surgeon General Joseph Ladapo said Sunday that his team didn’t study the impact eliminating vaccine mandates will have on the spread of diseases before announcing the policy change.
Ladapo said that projections on the impact of ending the mandates are unnecessary and that ending them is a moral issue about parental rights.
“Absolutely not,” Ladapo told CNN’s “State of the Union” on Sunday when pressed by host Jake Tapper about whether his team did a data assessment of how many new cases would emerge from the mandates going away.
“It’s an issue of right and wrong.”
Last week, Ladapo publicly vowed to end “every last one of” the vaccine mandates for schoolchildren, without outlining a timeline or a specific plan for doing so.
“We don’t need to do any projections,” he later added.
