you can't send out a message with a strong recommendation to get vaccinated. and i would go on these cdc calls and say, so our governor won't allow us to message about vaccination, what are other states doing? the folks at the cdc wouldn't even know what to say. as tennessee woke up to a surge of covid cases and deaths this summer, state lawmakers argued over a campaign to vaccinate children over 12, even though america's top drug agency had already declared it safe and effective. when you have advertisements like this, with a young girl with a patch on her arm all smiling, that's peer pressure applied by the state of tennessee, by your department. republicans were also furious over an e—mail shelley wrote to doctors explaining a state rule that permitted them to vaccinate kids over 14 without parental consent. it's very disconcerting to see