Posted on 11/27/2025 7:32:20 AM PST by DFG
Dr. Ralph Abraham, who was Louisiana's surgeon general, is now serving as the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s principal deputy director, the second-highest ranking post in the agency.
Abraham, as Louisiana's top health official, instructed instructed health department staffers in February to stop promoting mass vaccination for preventable illnesses, according to CNN.
“While we encourage each patient to discuss the risks and benefits of vaccination with their provider,” the health department “will no longer promote mass vaccination,” he wrote in an internal memo on the same day Robert F. Kennedy Jr., who has also been critical of vaccinations, was sworn in as Health and Human Services secretary.
HHS did not announce Abraham’s hiring but confirmed his new role. Health newsletter Inside Medicine first reported the news, CNN also reports.
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I still want to know the true story behind why CDCvirologist, Dr. Timothy Cunningham stompped off the CDCvampus a few years ago and ended up drowned.
It’s poetic justice that this man be from Louisiana, but it was in fact Louisiana’s Fauci-ist Senator Bill Cassidy (R) who sabotaged the confirmation advancement of RFK Jr’s pick for TOP dog at CDC,
Dr. Dave Weldon.
I pray he gets a second chance...but...unfortunately Trump, RFK, et al. may have lost a lot of the initial leverage he held towards the beginning of his term. I think he could have made it past...and that Sen. Susan Collins of Maine would have been behind it too...
Praying that registered Republican Louisiana-residents PRIMARY Bill Cassidy out of office. He is clearly a stooge for Big Pharma.
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It’s poetic justice that this man be from Louisiana, as* it was in fact Louisiana’s own Fauci-ist - Senator Bill Cassidy (R) - who sabotaged the confirmation advancement of RFK Jr’s pick for TOP dog at CDC: Doctor Dave Weldon.
I pray Weldon gets a second chance...but...unfortunately Trump, RFK, et al. may have lost a lot of the initial leverage they held at the beginning of the term. And Weldon I believe could have squeezed through, with even Sen Susan Collins of Maine giving in at the end.
Praying that registered Republican Louisiana-residents PRIMARY Bill Cassidy out of office. He is clearly a stooge for Big Pharma.
Given a choice, I would agree to some vaccinations, but not all of them. Some are just too controversial.
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