Your advocacy works! The supermajority Republican-controlled Florida State Legislature rejected Ron DeSantis's push to loosen vaccine mandates for schoolchildren [https://www.nytimes.com/2026/04/28/us/politics/ron-desantis-gop-florida-vaccines.html?unlocked\_article\_code=1.elA.jfcW.WToBNZNTVXq5&smid=url-share](https://www.nytimes.com/2026/04/28/us/politics/ron-desantis-gop-florida-vaccines.html?unlocked_article_code=1.elA.jfcW.WToBNZNTVXq5&smid=url-share) The speaker of the Florida State House, father of three young children, said outright that he was concerned about "children being in school without measles and mumps and polio and chickenpox vaccines that have been working for decades." The State Senate also tabled it as well. DeSantis's bill would have allowed families to seek exemptions from vaccine requirements based on personal beliefs, promoting "medical freedom" like mask bans.…