Tennessee GOP lawmakers met privately with state leaders about ending vaccine outreach

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https://www.tennessean.com/story/news/health/2021/07/21/tennessee-lawmakers-met-governors-rep-ending-vaccine-outreach/8022534002/

In the days before Tennessee stopped encouraging teenagers to be vaccinated against the coronavirus, Republican lawmakers met privately with the state health commissioner and a representative of the governor’s office to discuss specifically how to dial back vaccination advocacy to minors. Those same lawmakers on Wednesday shut down opposition comments from Democrats and the public in a highly-anticipated hearing.

This behind-the-scenes meeting appears to have appeased members of the conservative supermajority, who just last month accused the Department of Health of pressuring teens to get vaccinated and proposed dissolving the agency.

Since then, the health department instructed staff to end all outreach about adolescent vaccinations – not just coronavirus, but for all diseases – and cancelled COVID-19 vaccination events on school property or intended specifically for teenagers.

Some lawmakers, it turns out, knew of these changes in advance. Sen. Kerry Roberts, R-Springfield, and Rep. John Ragan, R-Oak Ridge, co-chairmen of the Joint Government Operations Committee, said in a committee hearing they’d met with Health Commissioner Lisa Piercey and a representative of the office of Gov. Bill Lee about plans to dial back vaccination outreach.

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[leftieNanner]

1. What a great plan!!

Kill 'em faster. Kill 'em younger.

Let's bring back all of those childhood diseases ONE MORE TIME!

SMDH