BATON ROUGE, La. (Louisiana Illuminator) - The Louisiana Department of Health will not hold public flu vaccine events or promote it through advertising for the second year in a row under Gov. Jeff Landry.

Surgeon General Ralph Abraham, a Landry appointee who oversees the state’s public health efforts, said at a news conference Tuesday his staff was “not going to do anything” to promote the vaccine. The state health department didn’t hold flu vaccine events last fall either during Landry’s first year in office .

It’s a departure from practice for Louisiana’s health agency, which held mass flu vaccine events for several years under previous governors, both Democratic and Republican.

The state health department staged flu vaccine drives every fall long before the outbreak of the COVID-1

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