{"id":249,"date":"2024-10-30T23:46:49","date_gmt":"2024-10-30T23:46:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/educationfund.diseasepreventionnetwork.org\/?p=249"},"modified":"2024-10-31T15:28:27","modified_gmt":"2024-10-31T15:28:27","slug":"elementor-249","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/educationfund.diseasepreventionnetwork.org\/?p=249","title":{"rendered":"Louisiana deserves better from our leaders than anti-vaccine rhetoric\u200b"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t<div data-elementor-type=\"wp-post\" data-elementor-id=\"249\" class=\"elementor elementor-249\" data-elementor-post-type=\"post\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-63cc7f4a e-flex e-con-boxed e-con e-parent\" data-id=\"63cc7f4a\" data-element_type=\"container\" data-e-type=\"container\" data-settings=\"{&quot;background_background&quot;:&quot;classic&quot;}\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"e-con-inner\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-188921f3 elementor-widget__width-initial elementor-widget elementor-widget-heading\" data-id=\"188921f3\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"heading.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<h1 class=\"elementor-heading-title elementor-size-default\">Louisiana deserves better from our leaders than anti-vaccine rhetoric<\/h1>\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-45111b2a elementor-widget__width-initial elementor-widget elementor-widget-author-box\" data-id=\"45111b2a\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"author-box.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-author-box\">\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-author-box__text\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div >\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<h4 class=\"elementor-author-box__name\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\tDr. Kali Broussard\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/h4>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-author-box__bio\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<p>October 29, 2024<\/p>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-79d836a6 e-flex e-con-boxed e-con e-parent\" data-id=\"79d836a6\" data-element_type=\"container\" data-e-type=\"container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"e-con-inner\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-51c6daed elementor-widget__width-initial elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"51c6daed\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<p>As a pediatric health care provider, it\u2019s deeply disheartening to witness our state\u2019s leaders squander an important opportunity to protect the health and safety of Louisianans \u2014especially our children.<\/p><p>Recent hearings held by the House Select Committee on Homeland Security were supposed to be a chance to reflect on Louisiana\u2019s response to the COVID-19 pandemic and identify ways to strengthen our public health systems. Instead, these hearings became\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/lailluminator.com\/2024\/09\/26\/fact-check-anti-vax-proponents-dominate-legislative-covid-response-hearing\/\">a platform for spreading falsehoods<\/a>, conspiracy theories and dangerous anti-vaccine rhetoric.<\/p><p>The people of Louisiana deserve better.<\/p><p>Our state has faced tremendous challenges \u2014 from hurricanes to health crises \u2014 and the COVID-19 pandemic was yet another test of our resilience. What we need now is a commitment to learning from the past, improving our systems and preparing for the future.<\/p><p>Instead, we saw taxpayer dollars used to amplify deceptive anti-vaccine talking points that undermines public trust and endangers lives. The presence of so-called \u201cexperts\u201d who were invited to push dangerous conspiracy theories in a formal government setting was not only irresponsible but deeply disappointing. Even more troubling were the statements made by our state\u2019s surgeon general and deputy surgeon general, whose remarks only served to legitimize these baseless claims.<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-494396e elementor-align-center elementor-widget elementor-widget-button\" data-id=\"494396e\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"button.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-button-wrapper\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<a class=\"elementor-button elementor-button-link elementor-size-sm\" href=\"https:\/\/lailluminator.com\/2024\/10\/29\/louisiana-anti-vaccine\/\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<span class=\"elementor-button-content-wrapper\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<span class=\"elementor-button-text\">Read More<\/span>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/span>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/a>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Louisiana deserves better from our leaders than anti-vaccine rhetoric As a pediatric health care provider, it\u2019s deeply disheartening to witness our state\u2019s leaders squander an important opportunity to protect the health and safety of Louisianans \u2014especially our children. Recent hearings held by the House Select Committee on Homeland Security were supposed to be a chance &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":153,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_block_theme_hide_title":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[12],"class_list":{"0":"post-249","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","6":"hentry","7":"category-news","8":"tag-louisiana","10":"with-featured-image"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/educationfund.diseasepreventionnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/249","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/educationfund.diseasepreventionnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/educationfund.diseasepreventionnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/educationfund.diseasepreventionnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/educationfund.diseasepreventionnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=249"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/educationfund.diseasepreventionnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/249\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/educationfund.diseasepreventionnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/153"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/educationfund.diseasepreventionnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=249"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/educationfund.diseasepreventionnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=249"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/educationfund.diseasepreventionnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=249"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}