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Maternal health organizations and advocates are urging the California surgeon general to suspend the rollout of a plan aimed at reducing maternal mortality.

And drinking has been the target of health concerns: In January, the U.S. surgeon general called for cancer warning labels to be placed on alcoholic drinks.

Surgeon General from 1936 to 1948, whose most heinous failure, however, was support for the infamous Tuskegee Experiment and equally horrific research in Guatemala.

And before he finished his second term as U.S. surgeon general earlier this year, Dr. Vivek Murthy called on Congress to require social media companies to include warning labels on their platforms similar to those mandatory on cigarette packaging.

That scenario is not so far-fetched — Florida’s surgeon general has discouraged the public from getting COVID-19 booster shots based on unscientific concerns about how mRNA vaccines work.