by Brenda Baletti, Ph.D., September 3, 2025
Florida Surgeon General Joseph Ladapo announced today plans to eliminate all vaccine mandates in the state, including for children to attend school.

“The Florida Department of Health, in partnership with the governor, is going to be working to end all vaccine mandates in Florida,” Ladapo said at a press conference in Tampa, hosted by Gov. Ron DeSantis. Florida would be the first state to completely drop all mandated vaccinations.

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     by Suzanne Burdick, Ph.D., September 2, 2025
Dr. Paul Offit, a staunch vaccine advocate and outspoken critic of U.S. Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr., will no longer serve on the committee that advises the FDA on vaccine approvals.

Offit, an infectious disease specialist at the Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia, told Endpoints News today in an email that the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) did not tell him why he was being dismissed from the agency’s Vaccines and Related Biological Products Advisory Committee (VRBPAC).

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     by Natasha Hobley, Published September 2, 2025
Following new childhood vaccine use recommendations issued by the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), the American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP) has released its own childhood vaccine schedule that differs from the CDC’s new recommendations.1

Citing “evidence based” guidelines, the AAP issued a press release stating, “It (the AAP childhood vaccine schedule) differs from recent recommendations of the Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices (ACIP) of the CDC, which was overhauled this year and replaced with individuals who have a history of spreading vaccine misinformation.”1 The AAP statement referred to a change in members of the ACIP in June 2025, as directed by Secretary of Health and Human Services Robert F. Kennedy, Jr.

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     Peter A. McCullough, MD, MPH, Aug 27, 2025
By Peter A. McCullough, MD, MPH

The CDC Advisory Panel on Immunization Practices and the CDC itself with its new director Susan Monarez, PhD, have come under fire regarding a recent lawsuit filed by Dr. Paul Thomas and Dr KP Stoller. Thomas and Stoller posted a video for the public giving the rationale for the case.

The doctors charge the CDC with setting exemption criteria that are unjust and then states follow by codifying these criteria into law or rigid operating guidelines for schools. Pediatricians and parents as a result, are effectively forced into vaccinating children against either their better judgement and or parental wishes

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     by Amber Baker, Published August 28, 2025
Department of Health and Human Services (DHHS) Secretary Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. announced on Aug. 5, 2025 that DHHS is canceling $500 million in vaccine development projects, specifically those using mRNA technology. The decision affects 22 projects, including contracts with Emory University and Tiba Biotech. Proposals from Pfizer, Sanofi Pasteur, CSL Seqirus, Gritstone, and others will no longer be considered. According to the DHHS, contracts already in their final stage will be allowed to continue “to preserve prior taxpayer investment.

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