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The New Orleans Times-Picayune reports:
Louisiana Surgeon General Ralph Abraham sent an internal directive to state health workers Thursday ending long-standing mass vaccination efforts and banning staff from promoting seasonal vaccines, while publicly issuing a letter criticizing the state’s COVID response and public health institutions. The letter was posted on the Louisiana Health Department’s website as the U.S. Senate voted to confirm Robert F. Kennedy Jr., a vaccine critic, as Health and Human Services secretary.
“Rather than instructing individuals to receive any and all vaccines, LDH staff should communicate data regarding the reduced risk of disease, hospitalization, and death associated with a vaccine and encourage individuals to discuss considerations for vaccination with their healthcare provider,” Abraham wrote in his letter, obtained by The Times-Picayune. Officials with the state health department did not respond to a request for comment.
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In December 2024, I reported that Louisiana’s public health agencies were ordered to stop promoting all vaccines on their social media accounts.
Surgeon General Ralph Abraham [photo above] appeared here in October 2024 when he invited notorious anti-vax nutbags to his hearing on Louisiana’s COVID response.
Abraham, a former US House rep and veterinarian, was appointed in July 2024 by Gov. Jeff Landry as Louisiana’s first-ever surgeon general. Abraham served three terms in the House, opting not to run again in 2020 after a failed 2018 run for governor.
Of note, the Republican who won the race to succeed him in Congress, Jeff Letlow, died of COVID days before he was to be sworn-in. Abraham had endorsed Letlow, whose widow Julia Letlow won the special election to fill the seat.
Louisiana Surgeon General Ralph Abraham sent a directive to state health workers Thursday ending long-standing mass vaccination clinics and banning staff from promoting seasonal vaccines.
— NOLA.com (@nolanews.bsky.social) February 13, 2025 at 2:20 PM