{"id":143232,"date":"2025-02-14T13:58:29","date_gmt":"2025-02-14T13:58:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/?p=143232"},"modified":"2025-02-14T13:58:33","modified_gmt":"2025-02-14T13:58:33","slug":"louisiana-department-of-health-says-it-will-no-longer-promote-mass-vaccination","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/?p=143232","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;Louisiana Department of Health says it will no longer promote mass vaccination&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2025\/02\/13\/health\/louisiana-mass-vaccination\/index.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">CNN<\/a>: &#8220;The Louisiana Department of Health will no longer promote mass vaccination, the state\u2019s surgeon general, Dr. Ralph Abraham, told state health workers Thursday.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cThe State of Louisiana and LDH have historically promoted vaccines for vaccine preventable illnesses through our parish health units, community health fairs, partnerships and media campaigns,\u201d Abraham wrote in a memo addressed to \u201cLDH Team Members\u201d and obtained by CNN. \u201cWhile we encourage each patient to discuss the risks and benefits of vaccination with their provider, LDH will no longer promote mass vaccination.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The directive, first\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.nola.com\/news\/healthcare_hospitals\/louisiana-vaccines-abraham-department-health\/article_e84828d8-ea38-11ef-af78-036bbfc0e22e.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">reported<\/a>\u00a0by the Times-Picayune, came the same day anti-vaccine advocate Robert F. Kennedy Jr. was sworn in as secretary of the US Department of Health and Human Services. It was timing that Dr. Jennifer Avegno, director of the Health Department for the City of New Orleans, said she didn\u2019t think was a coincidence.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>CNN: &#8220;The Louisiana Department of Health will no longer promote mass vaccination, the state\u2019s surgeon general, Dr. Ralph Abraham, told state health workers Thursday. \u201cThe State of Louisiana and LDH have historically promoted vaccines for vaccine preventable illnesses through our parish health units, community health fairs, partnerships and media campaigns,\u201d Abraham wrote in a memo&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-143232","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-newsstory"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/143232","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=143232"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/143232\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":143233,"href":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/143232\/revisions\/143233"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=143232"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=143232"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=143232"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}