According to multiple reports, Louisiana now has a policy in the state’s health department that forbids advertising or promoting various vaccinations.
The Louisiana Department of Health forbids public health workers from promoting the COVID-19, influenza, and mpox vaccines.
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NPR reports:
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.
Outstanding.
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“NPR blows gasket that Louisiana wants pharma companies to have to use some of their massive vaccine profits to promote their own products rather than use taxpayer money,” Aaron Siri commented.
NPR blows gasket that Lousiana wants pharma companies to have to use some of their massive vaccine profits to promote their own products rather than use taxpayer money. https://t.co/sj7V7PisWA
— Aaron Siri (@AaronSiriSG) December 20, 2024
Louisiana officials have taken the controversial step of barring the state health department from promoting flu, COVID-19, and mpox vaccines, raising concerns among public health experts. This decision comes amid a growing trend of vaccine skepticism, particularly among… pic.twitter.com/H30zIcfXnH
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Per MedPage Today:
In response to an email from MedPage Today, a Louisiana Health Department spokesperson did not respond to specific questions but instead sent a statement saying that “the department is shifting away from one-size-fits-all paternalistic guidance to a more informative approach aimed at enabling individuals, in consultation with their doctor, to make better decisions for themselves.”
“The department’s stance is that immunization for any vaccine [sic], along with practices like mask-wearing and social distancing, are an individual’s personal choice,” the statement continued. “If an individual has questions on whether or not they should get a certain vaccine, that discussion and decision should occur between a patient and their healthcare provider, who best understands their individual situation and medical history.”
The statement acknowledged that “While the flu vaccine does not prevent one from getting the influenza virus, it can lessen the severity of the illness and thus has a role in combating the effects of viral respiratory illnesses such as the flu … By decreasing the severity of the illness in people, particularly people who are medically vulnerable, this results in decreased hospitalization and mortality.” The statement also referred to COVID but contained no mention of mpox.
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