Three states on Sept. 3 said they’re forming a new alliance to counter updated federal vaccine recommendations.
California, Washington state, and Oregon said their new alliance will develop evidence- and science-based recommendations for immunizations amid concerns over updated guidance from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
“The CDC has become a political tool that increasingly peddles ideology instead of science, ideology that will lead to severe health consequences,” California Gov. Gavin Newsom, a Democrat, said in a statement. “California, Oregon, and Washington will not allow the people of our states to be put at risk.”
A spokesperson for the CDC’s parent agency, the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, which is led by Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr., said that “Democrat-run states that pushed unscientific school lockdowns, toddler mask mandates, and draconian vaccine passports during the COVID era completely eroded the American people’s trust in public health agencies.”…