Louisiana’s Department of Health (LDH) “will no longer promote mass vaccination” according to a memo sent out by the state’s top health official on Thursday shortly after vaccine sceptic Robert F Kennedy Jr was confirmed by the Senate as Donald Trump’s new Health and Human Services Secretary.
In the memo addressed to all “LDH Team Members”, the southern state’s Surgeon General Ralph Abraham, former Republican congressman, ordered his staff to stop engaging with media campaigns and community efforts to encourage vaccinations, despite Louisiana recently suffering a particularly harsh flu season.
