Promoting Covid, Flu Vaccines to Public Quietly Banned by Louisiana Department of Health: 'Unconscionable'

Public health workers are forbidden from distributing press releases, giving interviews, holding vaccine events, giving presentations or creating social media posts that advocate for the benefits of vaccines (Credit: Louisiana Dept of Health/Facebook)

Louisiana public health officials are no longer permitted to promote vaccines, including those against illnesses such as COVID-19 and the flu, to members of the public in a new policy that was covertly implemented in the state.

The policy was considered during two Louisiana Department of Health meetings held on Oct. 3 and Nov. 21, reported NPR. Employees who discussed the policy under anonymity revealed that it was to be quietly implemented and was never written down.