Tennessee Department of Health Stops All Vaccine Outreach to Teenagers, Ignoring Actual Public Health Guidance

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Tennessee Department of Health Stops All Vaccine Outreach to Teenagers, Ignoring Actual Public Health Guidance
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These changes come after Republican legislators accused the agency of trying to 'peer pressure' minors into getting covid-19 vaccines

about her firing. “When the people elected and appointed to lead this state put their political gains ahead of the public good, they have betrayed the people who have trusted them with their lives.”

This decision would lead to deaths anywhere—after all, we are still in the middle of a global pandemic that has killed over 600,000 people in the U.S. in less than a year and a half—but its potential impact is particularly dangerous in Tennessee. Currently, onlyare fully vaccinated, and if the pace of vaccination remains the same, the state won’t reach the 50% vaccination mark until next March.

to conduct “no proactive outreach regarding routine vaccines” and “no outreach whatsoever regarding the HPV vaccine,” reportsere also told not to plan for flu shot events at schools, and to remove the Tennessee Department of Health logo from any information released about back-to-school vaccinations. Apparently,In the past, the state health department had regularly advocated for vaccinating kids against the flu, measles, mumps, rubella, and HPV, and other viruses.

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