Florida’s Governor Plans to End All Childhood Vaccine Mandates

With the approval of Florida Governor Ron DeSantis, the state’s Surgeon General, Joseph Ladapo, MD, PhD, announced on Sept. 3, 2025 that all mandates for childhood vaccines should end in the sunshine state.1 The call for elimination of vaccine mandates in Florida came just a week after the charitable National Vaccine Information Center (NVIC) published […]
Repeal Mandatory Vaccination Laws: There Are No Exemptions to Informed Consent | Barbara Loe Fisher

The dystopian response by governments to the COVID-19 pandemic taught us a hard lesson. Never before had human populations around the world simultaneously watched medical doctors and government officials use fear and propaganda to suddenly catapult societies into a social, economic and ethical meltdown. We were ordered to hide in our homes, cover our faces […]
West Virginia Governor Issues Executive Order to Grant Religious Vaccine Exemption, Backs Lawsuit

West Virginia is one of the five states that fails to provide a religious exemption to compliance with public health laws requiring multiple doses of vaccines for children to attend school. The other states without a religious vaccine exemption include California, New York, Maine and Connecticut.1 2 West Virginia is the only state that has […]
Push for National Bird Flu Vaccine Program as USDA Points to Falling Egg Prices After Gains in Biosecurity Containment

Publicity about avian influenza (H5N1) infecting chickens, turkeys and cows in the United States1 and globally has been widespread for several years as fears about the possibility of bird flu epidemics among humans have led to calls for acceleration of development and use of animal and human bird flu vaccines.2 3 4 5 In February […]
Keep the Federal Government Out of State Public Health and Vaccine Law Making | Barbara Loe Fisher

[T]here are calls by some for the White House and U.S. Attorney General and Congress to intervene in California, New York, Maine and Connecticut and to override the constitutional authority of those state legislatures to make vaccine laws, which may or may not include religious belief exemptions to vaccination. The argument is that those four […]
FDA Approves MenQuadfi Meningococcal Vaccine for Six-Week-Old Infants

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has licensed Sanofi’ SA’s four-valent MenQuadfi meningococcal vaccine for use in infants aged six weeks to 23 months old to prevent invasive meningococcal disease. Previously approved for children aged two and older, MenQuadfi is now the first meningococcal vaccine included on the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and […]
