During the Covid pandemic, Louisiana had among the nation’s lowest vaccination rates, and
health care workers there struggled to combat misinformation about the safety of coronavirus immunizations.
On Thursday, Dr. Abraham also issued a
pointed public statement with his deputy surgeon general, Wyche T. Coleman, criticizing how state and federal health authorities had responded to the pandemic.
Dr. Abraham and Dr. Coleman wrote that the implementation of vaccine mandates had been “an offense against personal autonomy that will take years to overcome.”