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The legislative path stalled, but the executive-branch path did not, showing how vaccine policy is now being rewritten through administrative rule when statutes hold.
Florida is the test case for how far the reform agenda can move through a friendly legislature. This session showed both the momentum, a Senate-passed bill, and the ceiling: it stalled short of repealing school mandates.
Long before autism causation reached the White House, it was kept alive by private funders willing to be named. Gary Kompothecras is one of the most consequential of them, a father of children with autism who put his own money and access behind the research and films the establishment tried to bury.
The causation fight and the family-support fight are two halves of the same movement. Alex Kompothecras shows how the next generation is carrying both forward in Sarasota.
Florida became the first state to declare its intent to end every childhood vaccine mandate for schools, the most consequential state-level shift in vaccination policy in decades, and a direct test of the reform agenda in law.
Authored by Foundation advisory-board epidemiologist Anthony Mawson, this Florida-specific analysis is one of the studies most often cited in the state’s reform debate, and one of the most contested.