After intense pressure from GOP lawmakers, the Tennessee Department of Health has now said it will:
- Hold no vaccination events of any kind in schools.
- Send no reminders about, or material on, vaccines to teenagers.
This does not simply include Covid vaccines (Covid is currently surging in Tennessee), but includes flu, measles, meningitis, polio etc. It also includes sending no follow-up reminders about the second covid vaccine for anyone who has already had their first shot.
GOP lawmakers floated the idea of abolishing the whole Tennessee Department of Health if it didn't stop encouraging teenagers to get vaccinated. The head of the department's vaccination programs was subsequently fired.
This has been labelled the GOP's 'make polio great again' initiative, or 'killing the kids to own the libs'.
- Hold no vaccination events of any kind in schools.
- Send no reminders about, or material on, vaccines to teenagers.
This does not simply include Covid vaccines (Covid is currently surging in Tennessee), but includes flu, measles, meningitis, polio etc. It also includes sending no follow-up reminders about the second covid vaccine for anyone who has already had their first shot.
GOP lawmakers floated the idea of abolishing the whole Tennessee Department of Health if it didn't stop encouraging teenagers to get vaccinated. The head of the department's vaccination programs was subsequently fired.
This has been labelled the GOP's 'make polio great again' initiative, or 'killing the kids to own the libs'.
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