Louisiana forbids public health workers from promoting COVID, flu and mpox shots toggle caption Rosemary Westwood/WWNO 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. In a statement, the Louisiana Department of Health told NPR it has been "reevaluating both the …
Long before the COVID-19 pandemic, Robert F. Kennedy Jr. was building up a following with his anti-vaccine nonprofit group, Children’s Health Defense, and becoming one of the world’s most influential spreaders of fear and distrust around vaccines. Kennedy said in a 2023 podcast interview that “There’s no vaccine that is safe and effective” and told Fox News that he still …
