Renowned infectious diseases expert Michael Osterholm on Wednesday warned of the potential fallout from Florida’s move to end all vaccine mandates in the state, most notably including shots for schoolchildren.
The Sunshine State may “become a hotbed of transmission” as a direct result, the director of the Center for Infectious Disease Research and Policy at the University of Minnesota told CNN’s Anderson Cooper.
And, because of that, Osterholm said he “wouldn’t want my kids going to Florida in the years ahead, to go to Walt Disney World or any place like that.”
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Osterholm, whose new book “The Big One: Why Future Pandemics Will be Worse — and How We Must Prepare” is out next month, summarized of public health amid President Donald Trump’s second term: “We’re right now in freefall in this country.”
