Kas Miller: Florida parents all-in on vaccine safeguards

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By: Kas Miller

Florida parents urge lawmakers to protect school vaccine safeguards now.

Florida parents are used to legislative headlines coming and going. But when lawmakers call a Special Session to revisit school vaccine rules, families like mine pay attention.

These decisions do not stay in Tallahassee. They show up in classrooms, pediatric offices, and kitchen table conversations about whether it is safe to send our kids to school.

I am a mom of school-aged children and the Director of Florida Families for Vaccines. Like many parents, I have grown accustomed to vaccines fading quietly into the background, not because they are unimportant, but because they work. For decades, Florida’s school-entry immunization standards have helped keep once-common illnesses like measles and whooping cough rare. That stability is easy to take for granted until it starts to slip.