California, Oregon and Washington ally on vaccines in rebuke to Trump’s CDC | West Coast

The governors of California, Oregon and Washington announced on Wednesday the creation of an alliance of health of the west coast aimed at protecting access to vaccines, in the midst of the growing disorders of the main public health agency in the country under the direction of Robert F Kennedy Jr.

In a joint press release, California Gavin Newsom Governors, Tina Kotek from Oregon and Bob Ferguson de Washington said that CDC had become a “political tool that has more and more peddled instead of science”.

“Mass dismissal by the President Trump of CDC doctors and scientists – and its flagrant politicization of the agency – is a direct aggression against the health and security of the American people,” Democratic governors said in a joint statement, adding: “California, Oregon, and Washington will not allow the people of our states to be endangered.”

This decision comes a few days after the White House forced the newly confirmed director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Susan Monarez, who clashed with Kennedy, Trump secretary of the Department of American Health and Social Services (HHS), on his efforts to remedy the federal policies of the federal vaccine in a way that contradicts established scientific research. Its dismissal, just a few weeks after its confirmation, prompted several senior officials to resign and led to the increase in calls for legislators, scientists and former employees of the agency in Kennedy. Monarez was replaced by a Loyalist Trump without medical or scientific experience.

He argued that the organization’s “dysfunction” was responsible for the “irrational policy” during the cocovated pandemic, leading to a disproportionate number of deaths recorded in the United States compared to the global average.

In a statement, an HHS spokesman Andrew Nixon blamed the Democrats’ response to the Cavid-19 pandemic for having undergone public confidence in vaccine policy, and said that the federal immunization recommendations would continue to be “based on rigorous evidence and golden standards, and not on the failed Pandemic policy”.

“The States led by Democrats have pushed the locking of non-scientific schools, mask mandates for toddlers and draconian passports of the vaccine during the cocovable era have completely eroded the confidence of the American people in public health agencies,” he said.

The new West Coast Health Alliance will coordinate health directives in the three states, including vaccination recommendations based on evidence. Managers say that the effort is intended to provide residents with access to consistent and credible information on vaccines in the absence of a reliable federal leadership.

According to the announcement, the Alliance will publish a set of shared principles in the coming weeks. While states will share vaccination recommendations, they will also continue independent strategies according to their “unique laws, geographies, stories and peoples” and with regard to tribal sovereignty.

The three states registered their concern about Kennedy’s management in June, when they condemned sentenced his abrupt withdrawal of the 17 members of the CDC advisory committee on vaccination practices – a group considered for a long time for monitoring vaccine security. By announcing the new alliance, the governors said they were acting to protect the health of the tens of millions of residents of California, Oregon and Washington, committing to that public health councils are shaped by “decision -based decision -making”. Without coherent leadership and based on evidence of the federal government, they warned, the health security of the country was increasingly threatened.

Their action occurs the same day that more than 1,000 HHS employees and current have published a letter calling for the resignation of Kennedy. This occurs two days after nine former CDC officials wrote in a guest test of the New York Times that Kennedy’s leadership, and ousted from Monarez, months after having named it, was “unacceptable” and “unlike all that we have ever seen”.

It also marks a brutal gap of certain states led by the Republicans who have moved to loosen – or eliminate completely – certain vaccination mandates. On Wednesday, the general surgeon of Florida’s state announced that children would no longer be required to receive vaccines against avoidable diseases, including measles, mumps, chickenpox, polio and hepatitis. And earlier this summer, a new law entered Idaho by removing the requirement for children to be vaccinated to attend state schools.

Public health officials in California, Oregon and Washington have warned against erosion of trust in vaccines.

“Our communities deserve a clear and transparent communication on vaccines – communication based on science, and not ideology,” said Sejal Hathi, director of Oregon Health Authority, in a statement. “Vaccines are among the most powerful tools in modern medicine; They undoubtedly saved millions of lives. But when the advice on their use become incoherent or politicized, it compromises public confidence when we need it most. ”