AFAIK they are.free if you have some health insurance (even really bad insurance),.but I don’t think so if you have no insurance at all? Though children’s vaccines may be different.
Also they are given by doctors and they are not free, so even if the vaccine itself is free you may not be able to afford to take your kid to the doctor. 
What is not free is the form for the school you need the doctor to fill in to say your kid is vaccinated (in Maryland at least)
Another major reason smallpox was eradicated in the wild was that we had a world that feared this disease and people across the globe were motivated to cooperate with the global vaccination program at that time. Can you imagine how a world-wide vaccination campaign against a horrible and deadly disease would go over today? It seems like people have become too comfortable under the success of vaccines - some have forgotten how terrible, deadly, and disfiguring some of these diseases were, and I am concerned all of us are in for a wake-up call thanks to these fucking anti-vaxxers fomenting doubt and implementing these short-sighted changes.
Considering how hard it is to get support for cheap ways to protect people from malaria, I imagine it would not happen.
The point of what? That has nothing to do with why I asked the question. I asked the question within my broader post to try to determine whether a sane parent in Florida could still protect their children by getting them vaccinated, and others have already responded that even in such circumstances, the risk to vaccinated children is still greater when others are not vaccinated.
I could understand all this if the Republicans were trying to eliminate vaccination in Democratic areas so they could kill off future Democrats as children. It would be evil but understandable.
I don’t understand why Republicans are working so hard to kill off Republican children.
This is like when Pol Pot convinced the people of Cambodia that they should kill the Cambodians.
That is an apt comparison, particularly given how radically anti-science the GOP has become.
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I mean not killing all those children would risk the antivax contingent not voting for Ron DeSantis next year in the gubernatorial election. What else is he going to do?
Ron DeSantis is literally the personification of “power for power’s sake”.
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It depends…
If an uninsured person goes into a random pharmacy and tries to get their kid an MMR, TDAP, or other standard vaccine, it could be in the $25–100 range. If that kid is covered by any kind of insurance, then it is probably free.
If they plan ahead at all, by doing a web search or anything, they can find a free vaccine clinic. Here is what the Miami-Dade health department says:
The Florida Department of Health in Miami-Dade provides free immunizations to all children that visit our clinics.
The vaccines that are offered free of charge for children, ages 0 through 18 are DT, DTAP, TD, TDAP, Hepatitis A and B, HIB, HPV-9, Influenza, IPV, MCV4, Meningococcal B, MMR, PCV13, Rotavirus and VZV.
So yes, childhood vaccines are free for anyone who wants them. It may require work, travel, and be inconvenient, but that puts it on equal footing with paid medical services in the US.
Again, that’s for now. If the CDC removes the MMR vaccine from its recommendations, and the Florida Department of Health uses those recommendations for its available vaccines, the MMR vaccine could be a lot harder to get for free.
Oh yeah, next week vaccines could be banned. Not being flippant.
Changing recommendations from the CDC have caused states to take their own paths. I totally expect that if a state stops offering free vaccines, as long as it is legal to administer them, even if it requires a doctor’s oversight, that there will be private missions to get people vaccinated. “Waste of time” isn’t the right phrase, though, because it would be life saving work, so maybe “diversion of charitable resources that could be better spent on something other than a self-inflicted wound.”
I did that and my son is protected from distemper, rabies and bordetella.
Just another good reason (like I needed any) to never, ever visit Florida. I was there once in 1968 to visit my girlfriend, who informed me she was pregnant with someone else’s kid. Couldn’t you have just sent me a letter? I wasn’t impressed with the place and this just seals the deal.
Does anything good happen in Florida?
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Polio is especially dangerous, because probably 90%+ of the people who have it don’t even know it! They may have a day or two of fever and GI symptoms, and only the ones who have neurological complications end up knowing what they had.
I predict that we’re going to see a lot less trigeminal neuralgia and other neuropathies in the decades to come, when people who were born before the early 1950s and therefore old enough to have had polio die, and we don’t see any kind of post-polio syndrome any more.
My husband’s family now lives in Florida. His mother, his sister, his sister’s wife and their child, his father and his father’s girlfriend. We finally broke down and flew down there this year. It was a nice time. I still find it baffling how anyone would want to live there, especially lesbians who had a baby through IVF and an elderly lady terrified of hurricanes. But we’re really in a bind, you know? I want my son to have more experiences with his relatives.
Yeah, I get it. We have very good friends who live in St. Petes. They’ve invited us down there, but the thought of spending one tourist dollar there just rubs me the wrong way. She hates it, by the way, but her husband likes it there. Although the last I heard from them, they were both pretty fed up with that dipshit governor.
I wouldn’t want to live anywhere else than SoFL. The State government is stupid, but that’s increasingly true everywhere. And 99% irrelevant to daily life as a comfortable retiree.
We in the USA are all whistling past a graveyard regardless of our zip code.
ETA: I’d far rather move to Central or South America than any other US state. Not for the politics but for the quality of natural conditions and daily life.
YMMV of course.
Well, you have nice roads, anyhow. Our entire vacation in Florida I didn’t see a single instance of road construction.
Don’t ask me about Michigan roads.
Can the school systems in Florida still mandate vaccines for students and staff?
Are nations going to require vaccination proof from US citizens before entry into their country?