Louisiana forbids public health workers from promoting COVID, flu and mpox shots
A group of high-level managers at the Louisiana Department of Health walked into a Nov. 14 meeting in Baton Rouge expecting to talk about outreach and community events.
Instead, they were told by an assistant secretary in the department and another official that department leadership had a new policy: Advertising or otherwise promoting the COVID, influenza or mpox vaccines, an established practice there — and at most other public health entities in the U.S. — must stop.
NPR has confirmed the policy was discussed at this meeting, and at two other meetings held within the department's Office of Public Health, on Oct. 3 and Nov. 21, through interviews with four employees at the Department of Health, which employs more than 6,500 people and is the state's largest agency.
According to the employees, who spoke on the condition of anonymity because they fear losing their jobs or other forms of retaliation, the policy would be implemented quietly and would not be put in writing.
Staffers were also told that it applies to every aspect of the health department's work: Employees could not send out press releases, give interviews, hold vaccine events, give presentations or create social media posts encouraging the public to get the vaccines. They also could not put up signs at the department's clinics that COVID, flu or mpox vaccines were available on site.
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
This is absolutely appalling. 
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with state legislators threatenting to completely disempower the Shelby County Health Dept. (1 of only 6 independent health depts in this entire shithole red state), so in deference to the magats, the Health Dept. even stopped reporting COVID numbers.
I hate them more than words can say...
Backwards. How much further will your country go? jeesu h.Between your maga aandsouthern hill billies. What a fucking laughing stock you are becoming. We have our share of Idiots gawd knows. But we try not to B-road cast it..ignorance Can’t anythingbe done yo stop this stupidity?
But by then, it might be too late... 
And internet propaganda brought us here. 
