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Opinion | Lately, Tennessee is a national embarrassment | Richard Ransom

“Tennessee is in the national spotlight and not in a good way,” said Local 24 News anchor Richard Ransom.

MEMPHIS, Tenn. — In Wednesday’s Ransom Note: Tennessee is in the national spotlight and not in a good way.

Do a Google search on the Tennessee Health Department, and all you'll find is story after story about the firing of the state's vaccine boss, not to mention the new policy to stop all outreach to adolescents about getting vaccines --any vaccines, including measles, polio, and HPV.

CNN, CBS, NPR, NBC, New York Times, Washington Post, Tennessee is now an outlier among the anti-vaxxers, but hey, we're number one for growth in new cases of COVID, almost 500% in the past 14 days, so that's something.

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