Flu surges in Louisiana as health department barred from promoting flu shots

The CDC publishes a weekly map showing this data on a state by state basis.

https://www.cdc.gov/fluview/surveillance/usmap.html

Given the reality of the raw data, these sorts of stories are not a good look for science journalism in general and Ars in particular.

the raw data appears to agree that Louisiana is surging in cases. What is the issue? Just that they have assigned a cause when it may actually just be correlation?

If Louisiana were the only state experiencing a spike in cases, there would at least be cause to speculate.

Ars doesn't even have that excuse.

America has already experienced too large a decrease in trust towards public health pronouncements.

Continuing to politicize public health reporting is unacceptable.

Not to worry, Trump will fix it --- by prohibiting the CDC from reporting the number of cases without political oversight and approval.

Stupid is as stupid does.

Is the Oregon health department doing the same thing? What explains their similar outcomes?

Activism masquerading as reporting is never a good look.