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drray23

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Wed Sep 3, 2025, 07:52 PM Sep 3

States unveil vaccine coordination plan, in snub to RFK Jr. [View all]

A coalition of West Coast, Democratic-led states on Wednesday announced a new public health alliance formed in defiance of Health and Human Services (HHS) Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr., with the states saying it will provide “science-driven” advice on vaccines.

California Gov. Gavin Newsom (D), Oregon Gov. Tina Kotek (D) and Washington Gov. Bob Ferguson (D) announced the launch of the West Coast Health Alliance just days after Kennedy sacked the director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). The health secretary has also overhauled the CDC’s vaccine advisory board, appointing multiple like-minded vaccine skeptics.


For those who always say Democrats are not fighting back. We have to stand up a shadow government just to survive the Trump years. Apparently, this is starting to occur in areas such as healthcare.

Hopefully, blue states start coordinating many more things together and bypass the nonsense the Trump regime is putting up.

For example, I could see a coalition to deal with disasters, given that FEMA is pretty much neutered.

Read more: https://thehill.com/policy/healthcare/5483864-west-coast-health-alliance/

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