Advisory Board October 28, 2025
Both Idaho and Florida have banned vaccine mandates, and other states seem likely to follow — something that health experts warn will negatively impact people’s health and could lead to the resurgence of several infectious diseases.
Some states are getting rid of vaccine mandates
The United States has had a long history of vaccine mandates, with the U.S. Supreme Court ruling in 1909 that compulsory vaccination to protect public health was constitutional.
According to a CDC analysis published last year, routine childhood vaccinations prevented over 1.1 million deaths and 32 million hospitalizations in the United States over the last three decades. This helped save $540 billion in direct costs and $2.7 trillion in indirect costs. Notably, the analysis did not...
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