Just saw on NPR that the Trump administration has terminated a successful CDC flu vaccine campaign:
As flu rages, the Trump administration has pulled the plug on a Centers for Disease Control and Prevention flu immunization campaign that ta
This is obviously horrid for many reasons, right in the middle of a particularly potent flu season, but the campaign was specifically attempting to target people at higher risk, including children and pregnant women, and sought to better educate the public on how a weakened flu response is a positive outcome of vaccination. So since our government is preventing itself from this outreach, we've gotta look out for each other instead.
Please pass the around the Wayback Machine link for the discontinued campaign:
Access CDC Flu Vaccination Campaign resources to encourage annual flu vaccination.
Also pick your favorite image from the above link to include in social media posts (like Tumblr for instance!), here's mine:
