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fromwww.npr.org
2 hours ago

Louisiana's top health official, a critic of the COVID vaccine, will be CDC deputy

Dr. Ralph Abraham, who has questioned COVID vaccine safety and banned state vaccine promotion, will be CDC principal deputy director under HHS leadership.
fromFortune
7 hours ago

Meet Ralph Lee Abraham, the CDC's new second-in-command who believes the Affordable Care Act should be repealed and called vaccines 'dangerous' | Fortune

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.
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