🚨 First post here is an investigation that took weeks.
In quietly held meetings in the Louisiana Department of Health, staff were told of a dramatic shift in policy: the department had banned the promotion of COVID, flu and mpox vaccines.
https://www.npr.org/sections/shots-health-news/2024/12/20/nx-s1-5223440/louisiana-ban-public-health-promoting-covid-flu-mpox-vaccines-landry-rfk-jr-anti-vaccine
In quietly held meetings in the Louisiana Department of Health, staff were told of a dramatic shift in policy: the department had banned the promotion of COVID, flu and mpox vaccines.
https://www.npr.org/sections/shots-health-news/2024/12/20/nx-s1-5223440/louisiana-ban-public-health-promoting-covid-flu-mpox-vaccines-landry-rfk-jr-anti-vaccine
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Although they also want to spend millions on hospital care for the people who don't die.
Staff can't hold vaccine events for these immunizations. They can't give interviews recommending the vaccines.
And they were told this new policy would not be put in writing.
Public health and vaccine experts called it "absurd", "reckless," "dangerous," and "malpractice" and said it will lead to more illnesses and deaths.
But if you don't have experts advising you, it's a pig-ignorant personal choice based on misinformation.
Two quotes from LDH staffers that stick with me:
"I mean, do they want to dismantle public health?"
"We're really talking about deaths."