As Florida intends to eliminate vaccine mandates for students, President Donald Trump says some “vaccines should be used.”
Trump also said officials in Florida are taking a “tough stance” in their move and should be cautious, per Fox News.
“I think we have to be very careful. You have some vaccines that are so amazing. The polio vaccine, I happen to think, is amazing,” Trump said.
He also said he believes the COVID-19 vaccine — that was developed during his first term as president — is “amazing.”
“You have some vaccines that are so incredible, and I think you have to be very careful when you say that some people don’t have to be vaccinated. It’s a very tough position … it’s a tough stance,” he continued.
He also said there are “vaccines that work, they just pure and simple work.”
“They’re not controversial at all,” Trump said. “And I think those vaccines should be used, otherwise some people are going to catch it and they endanger other people. And when you don’t have controversy at all, I think people should take them.”
Earlier this week, Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis and state Surgeon General Joseph Ladapo revealed that the state would eliminate all vaccine mandates. Ladapo likened the mandates to slavery.
“All of them,” Ladapo said Wednesday. “Every last one of them is wrong and drips with disdain and slavery.”
Every state plus Washington, D.C., requires vaccines for children to attend school. However, fewer vaccines have been given.
Ladapo also called the COVID-19 vaccine “poison.” It has been taken off the recommended list for healthy children by the federal government under Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr.
“Who am I as a government or anyone else, who am I as a man standing here now, to tell you what you should put in your body?” Lapado said. “Who am I to tell you what your child should put in [their] body? I don’t have that right.”
“You want to put whatever different vaccines in your body, God bless you. I hope you make an informed decision,” he continued. “You don’t want to put whatever vaccines in your body, God bless you. I hope you make an informed decision. That’s how it should be.”
