{"id":33353,"date":"2025-02-14T18:29:04","date_gmt":"2025-02-14T18:29:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2025\/02\/14\/louisianas-health-department-cancels-promotion-of-mass-vaccinations\/"},"modified":"2025-02-14T18:29:04","modified_gmt":"2025-02-14T18:29:04","slug":"louisianas-health-department-cancels-promotion-of-mass-vaccinations","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2025\/02\/14\/louisianas-health-department-cancels-promotion-of-mass-vaccinations\/","title":{"rendered":"Louisiana\u2019s health department cancels promotion of mass vaccinations"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>State\u2019s surgeon general presents illness-preventing jabs as personal choice in move that experts call \u2018infuriating\u2019<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/louisiana\">Louisiana<\/a>\u2019s health department \u201cwill no longer promote mass vaccination\u201d, including using media campaigns or health fairs to promote vaccines against preventable illnesses, according to an internal memo issued by the surgeon general in the state of 4.5 million people.<\/p>\n<p>The memo from surgeon general, Dr Ralph Abraham, immediately ignited fears of lower vaccination rates leading to increased sickness, hospitalization and death \u2013 as well as a return of diseases such as measles and polio that had all been mostly eradicated by vaccines.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2025\/feb\/14\/louisiana-vaccination\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>State\u2019s surgeon general presents illness-preventing jabs as personal choice in move that experts call \u2018infuriating\u2019 Louisiana\u2019s health department \u201cwill no longer promote mass vaccination\u201d, including using media campaigns or health fairs to promote vaccines against preventable illnesses, according to an internal memo issued by the surgeon general in the state of 4.5 million people. The &#8230; <a title=\"Louisiana\u2019s health department cancels promotion of mass vaccinations\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2025\/02\/14\/louisianas-health-department-cancels-promotion-of-mass-vaccinations\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about Louisiana\u2019s health department cancels promotion of mass vaccinations\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-33353","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33353","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=33353"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33353\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=33353"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=33353"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=33353"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}