"Dr. Ralph Lee Abraham, the Louisiana surgeon general who halted his state's vaccine promotion campaigns and delayed warning the public about a deadly whooping cough outbreak, has quietly been installed as the second-highest official at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. The Department of Health and Human Services did not announce this appointment. The news was first spotted by Dr. Jeremy Faust, who runs the Substack called Inside Medicine."
"The selection aligns the CDC's senior leadership with the views of Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr., a longtime vaccine skeptic. Abraham has promoted discredited COVID-19 treatments including ivermectin and hydroxychloroquine, and, according to Faust, Abraham was the seventh-highest prescriber of ivermectin among Louisiana's roughly 12,000 practicing physicians in 2021, personally accounting for 1.1% of the state's prescriptions for the anti-parasitic drug. Clinical studies had already demonstrated ivermectin's ineffectiveness against COVID-19 by that time."
Dr. Ralph Lee Abraham, 70, former Republican congressman and Louisiana surgeon general, began serving as principal deputy director at the CDC on November 23. The Department of Health and Human Services did not publicly announce the appointment. As Louisiana surgeon general, Abraham halted state vaccine promotion campaigns and delayed warning the public about a deadly whooping cough outbreak. He promoted discredited COVID-19 treatments such as ivermectin and hydroxychloroquine and ranked among Louisiana's highest ivermectin prescribers in 2021. Abraham has called the COVID vaccine "dangerous" and claimed to see vaccine injuries daily, statements that conflict with evidence showing vaccines reduce hospitalizations and deaths. The appointment aligns CDC senior leadership with views of Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. and has drawn sharp criticism.
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