OLYMPIA, Wash. – The governors of Washington, Oregon and California announced today that the three states will form a West Coast Health Alliance, citing increasing concerns about the Center for Disease Control (CDC) under the Trump administration.
The West Coast Health Alliance will coordinate and align health and vaccine guidelines across the three states.
“While each state will independently pursue strategies shaped by their unique laws, geographies, histories, and peoples, these shared principles will form the foundations of the Alliance,” the states said in a press release.
Last week, the less than a month after her confirmation to the position in the Senate.
“President Trump’s mass firing of CDC doctors and scientists — and his blatant politicization of the agency — is a direct assault on the health and safety of the American people,” Governors Ferguson, Kotek and Newsom said in a joint statement. “The CDC has become a political tool that increasingly peddles ideology instead of science, ideology that will lead to severe health consequences. California, Oregon, and Washington will not allow the people of our states to be put at risk.”
