{"id":22209,"date":"2025-02-14T04:07:43","date_gmt":"2025-02-14T05:07:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/?p=22209"},"modified":"2025-02-14T05:35:49","modified_gmt":"2025-02-14T05:35:49","slug":"louisiana-health-department-says-it-will-stop-promoting-mass-vaccination","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/?p=22209","title":{"rendered":"Louisiana Health Department Says It Will Stop Promoting \u2018Mass Vaccination\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"
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\u201cVaccines should be treated with nuance, recognizing differences between seasonal vaccines and childhood immunizations,\u201d Dr. Ralph L. Abraham, the state\u2019s surgeon general, wrote in a memo.<\/p>\n

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Louisiana\u2019s top health official said in an internal memo to the state\u2019s Health Department on Thursday that it would no longer use media campaigns or health fairs to promote vaccination against preventable illnesses.<\/p>\n

The official, Dr. Ralph L. Abraham, Louisiana\u2019s surgeon general, wrote in the memo that the state would \u201cencourage each patient to discuss the risks and benefits of vaccination with their provider\u201d but would \u201cno longer promote mass vaccination.\u201d<\/p>\n

The letter came on a day when the U.S. Senate confirmed<\/a> Robert F. Kennedy Jr., who has raised questions about vaccines, as the new U.S. health secretary. But it was not clear if the memo had come in response to the change in federal leadership.<\/p>\n

\u201cVaccines should be treated with nuance, recognizing differences between seasonal vaccines and childhood immunizations, which are an important part of providing immunity to our children,\u201d wrote Dr. Abraham, a former Republican congressman.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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A spokeswoman for the Louisiana Department of Health did not immediately respond on Thursday night to questions about the scope of the directive and how it might affect the distribution of vaccines.<\/p>\n

The Health Department in New Orleans, Louisiana\u2019s largest city, quickly said that it would not follow the state\u2019s lead.<\/p>\n

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\u201cVaccines should be treated with nuance, recognizing differences between seasonal vaccines and childhood immunizations,\u201d Dr. Ralph L. Abraham, the state\u2019s surgeon general, wrote in a memo.Louisiana\u2019s top health official said in an internal memo to the state\u2019s Health Department on Thursday that it would no longer use media campaigns or health fairs to promote vaccination against preventable illnesses.The official, Dr. Ralph L. Abraham, Louisiana\u2019s surgeon general, wrote in the memo that the state would \u201cencourage each patient to discuss the risks and benefits of vaccination with their provider\u201d but would \u201cno longer promote mass vaccination.\u201dThe letter came on a day when the U.S. Senate confirmed Robert F. Kennedy Jr., who has raised questions about vaccines, as the new U.S. health secretary. But it was not clear if the memo had come in response to the change in federal leadership.\u201cVaccines should be treated with nuance, recognizing differences between seasonal vaccines and childhood immunizations, which are an important part of providing immunity to our children,\u201d wrote Dr. Abraham, a former Republican congressman.A spokeswoman for the Louisiana Department of Health did not immediately respond on Thursday night to questions about the scope of the directive and how it might affect the distribution of vaccines.The Health Department in New Orleans, Louisiana\u2019s largest city, quickly said that it would not follow the state\u2019s lead.We are having trouble retrieving the article content.Please enable JavaScript in your browser settings.Thank you for your patience while we verify access. If you are in Reader mode please exit and\u00a0log into\u00a0your Times account, or\u00a0subscribe\u00a0for all of The Times.Thank you for your patience while we verify access.Already a subscriber?\u00a0Log in.Want all of The Times?\u00a0Subscribe.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":22211,"comment_status":"close","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-22209","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-health"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22209","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=22209"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22209\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22212,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22209\/revisions\/22212"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/22211"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=22209"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=22209"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=22209"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}