Louisiana officials waited months to warn public of whooping cough outbreak

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https://www.npr.org/sections/shots-health-news/2025/10/28/nx-s1-5576494/louisiana-whooping-cough-pertussis-infant-deaths?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub

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On Feb. 13, the state's surgeon general, Ralph Abraham, sent a memo to staff ending the general promotion of vaccines and community vaccine events.

He sent that email a few hours after Robert F. Kennedy Jr., an anti-vaccine activist, won Senate confirmation as the new U.S. health and human services secretary.

Also that day, Abraham posted a public memo on the Louisiana Department of Health's website. In it, he said public health had overstepped with vaccine recommendations, which, he said, are driven by "a one-size-fits-all, collectivist mentality." Abraham has called COVID-19 vaccines "dangerous" and has been a vocal supporter of Kennedy.
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Over the next month, two more infants were hospitalized for whooping cough, according to internal health department emails, obtained through a public records request.

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