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Related: About this forumLouisiana bars health dept. from promoting flu, COVID, mpox vaccines: Report
DEC 20, 2024 9:58 AM
Louisiana's health department has been barred from advertising or promoting vaccines for flu, COVID-19, and mpox, according to reporting by NPR, KFF Health News, and New Orleans Public Radio WWNO.
Their investigative reportbased on interviews with multiple health department employees who spoke on the condition of anonymity for fear of retaliationrevealed that employees were told of the startling policy change in meetings in October and November and that the policy would be implemented quietly and not put into writing.
Ars Technica has contacted the health department for comment and will update this post with any new information.
The health department provided a statement to NPR saying that it has been "reevaluating both the state's public health priorities as well as our messaging around vaccine promotion, especially for COVID-19 and influenza." The statement described the change as a move "away from one-size-fits-all paternalistic guidance" to a stance in which "immunization for any vaccine, along with practices like mask wearing and social distancing, are an individual's personal choice."
According to employees, the new policy cancelled standard fall flu vaccination events this year and affects every other aspect of the health department's work, as NPR explained:
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Walleye
(36,386 posts)They must know they are putting their own children at risk. The same children, they use as an excuse to oppress the rest of us all the time. But then maybe they dont like their children. theyre so pro-gun
underpants
(187,318 posts)Thats the mentality. Even though Trump basically remarkably didnt screw up and get in the way of the COVID vaccine he still didnt take credit for it. The media would have give along with his new history but everything COVID related is bad according to what the cult is told.
Walleye
(36,386 posts)In fact, we should play it up how weak he was about the vaccines. Couldve saved a lot of lives if he hadnt gone off on quack cures. Of course, we know that the vaccine is not just for the benefit of the person who gets it. But thats real socialistic to the right wingers I guess. Youre getting a shot to benefit humanity. They dont like that. In their mind weak people should just die.
underpants
(187,318 posts)Which no one thought it was. Everything around him must be right. Anything else (he thinks) makes him look bad. Thats my main concern with his 2nd term - some underling can rope him in to something and he cant NOT support it or it would look bad.
Walleye
(36,386 posts)Ive never seen a grown man so susceptible to flattery. Cheap flattery at that.
patphil
(7,108 posts)They keep looking for ways to kill people, especially children.
I expect you'll see outbreaks of covid, measles, diptheria, small pox, chicken pox and others in Louisiana within the next couple of years.
And, Louisiana has the highest child and teen rate of death by firearm in the nation.
https://www.kff.org/mental-health/issue-brief/child-and-teen-firearm-mortality-in-the-u-s-and-peer-countries/
Scroll down to the graph and note that NY and NJ have the lowest rates, while Louisiana is the highest. Also take a look at the states that are on the right hand side of the graph...Mississippi and Alabama are 2nd and 3rd highest.
You can draw your own conclusions.