Flu surges in Louisiana

Flu surges in Louisiana as health department barred from promoting flu shots
Flu season is ramping up across the US, but Louisiana—the state that has reportedly barred its health department from promoting flu shots, as well as COVID-19 and mpox vaccines—is leading the country with an early and strong surge.
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Louisiana's vaccine rates for Covid-19 and flu are markedly lower than national vaccination rates, CDC data shows.
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While the Louisiana Department of Health is reportedly ordering its employees not to promote flu vaccination events or encourage Louisiana residents to get vaccinated, the city of New Orleans’s health department is taking the opposite tact.
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The change comes amid a dangerous swell of anti-vaccine sentiment and misinformation in Louisiana and across the country. President-elect Trump has picked Robert F. Kennedy Jr.—a high-profile anti-vaccine advocate and one of the most prolific spreaders of vaccine misinformation —to head the US Department of Health and Human Services.
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A group of high-level managers at the Louisiana Department of Health walked into a Nov. 14 meeting in Baton Rouge expecting to talk about outreach and community events. Instead, they were told by an assistant secretary in the department and another official that department leadership had a new policy: Advertising or otherwise promoting the COVID,
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