Florida Ends Vaccine Mandate by Emily Jo Scalzo

New measles outbreak
a plague of anti-vaxxers
spreading diseases
a scapegoat for autism
destroy herd immunity

by Emily Jo Scalzo

There is a resurgence of measles outbreaks and now Florida is ending vaccine mandates based on RFK Jr.’s “research”.

Further reading:

‘Florida Moves to End Vaccine Mandates for Schoolchildren’, 2025, Mazzei, P., The New York Times, available: https://www.nytimes.com/2025/09/03/us/florida-vaccine-mandates.html

Author bio:

Emily Jo Scalzo holds an MFA in fiction from California State University-Fresno. Their work has appeared in various magazines including Midwestern Gothic, Mobius: The Journal of Social Change, and others. Their first chapbook, The Politics of Division (2017), was awarded honorable mention in the 2018 Eric Hoffer Book Awards.

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