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'Florida's going to become a hotbed of transmission': Former Biden COVID adviser

By CNN / The Hill  
   September 05, 2025

Michael Osterholm, a former Biden administration adviser on COVID-19, said 'Florida's going to become a hotbed of transmission' after Sunshine State officials announced they will seek to make the state the first in the U.S. to officially remove school vaccine mandates. 'I would have to tell you, as a parent or a grandparent, I wouldn't want my kids to go into Florida in the years ahead, to go to Walt Disney World, or any place like that, because Florida's going to become a hotbed of transmission by eliminating this particular mandate, and I think — unfortunately timely for that to be true,' Osterholm told CNN.

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