This week, news broke that Florida's Department of Health will recommend against healthy children getting vaccinated against COVID-19, defying federal guidance from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) and numerous other scientists and public health experts.
"The Florida Department of Health is going to be the first state to officially recommend against the COVID-19 vaccines for healthy children," Florida Surgeon General Joseph Ladapo said during a Monday roundtable with experts. As it stands, a formal policy around the agency's soon-to-be guidance remains unclear, as does what will be included in the designation "healthy children." But Ladapo noted Florida was the first state to issue such a recommendation — and it is one that many infectious disease doctors and pediatricians are forcibly pushing back against.
