California, Oregon and Washington ally on vaccines in rebuke to Trump's CDC [View all]
Source: The Guardian
The governors of California, Oregon and Washington announced on Wednesday the creation of a West Coast Health Alliance aimed at safeguarding access to vaccines, amid growing turmoil at the nation’s top public health agency under the leadership of Robert F Kennedy Jr.
The newly formed West Coast Health Alliance will coordinate health guidance across the three states, including evidence-based immunization recommendations. Officials say the effort is intended to provide residents with access to consistent and credible information about vaccines in the absence of reliable federal leadership.
According to the announcement, the alliance will release a set of shared principles in the coming weeks. While the states will share immunization recommendations, they will also pursue independent strategies based on their “unique laws, geographies, histories, and peoples” and with respect to Tribal sovereignty.
Public health officials in California, Oregon and Washington warned of an erosion of trust in vaccines.
Read more: https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/sep/03/west-coast-alliance-trump-rfk-vaccines
This health alliance should go far beyond vaccines. It should be a shadow version of the CDC and should compete with RFK Jr's horrific misinformation spewage in all areas of medicine. This could, and should, be a key element of what has been called "soft secession" where groups of states that can still think create quasi federal agencies that can provide sound policies and recommendations to counter the national government's bullshit. I hope this can be a start to new inter-state compacts where some federal functions are replaced by multi-state agreements. This health alliance should be hiring some of the CDC leaders who have been ousted. We need more Fauci's and fewer RFK Jr's.
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