IN-DEPTH: Florida Set to Approve Bill Targeting Vaccines, Masks, and Mandates—Some Activists Say It’s Not Enough

Copies of Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis's newly released book, “The Courage To Be Free: Florida’s Blueprint For America’s Revival” at the Orange County Choppers Road House in Pinellas Park, Florida, on March 8, 2023. Joe Raedle/Getty Images

The Florida Legislature is poised to approve a medical freedom measure that vastly expands Floridians’ protections against what Gov. Ron DeSantis has called “medical authoritarianism.”

But even as that’s happening, some of the medical freedom movement’s leaders in the state are denouncing the bill as a sellout and a sham.