Governors of Washington, Oregon and California formed an alliance to safeguard health policies amid concerns that the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention is being politicized. They cited restructuring and downsizing of the CDC under Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr., attempts to advance anti-vaccine policies, staffing and budget cuts, and efforts to remove agency leadership. State health officials warned that dismantling public health leadership and ignoring science, data, and evidence places lives at risk. The partnership will coordinate immunization guidance aligned with recommendations from respected national medical organizations to maintain consistent public health protections.
The CDC has become a political tool that increasingly peddles ideology instead of science, ideology that will lead to severe health consequences,
The dismantling of public health and dismissal of experienced and respected health leaders and advisers, along with the lack of using science, data, and evidence to improve our nation's health are placing lives at risk,
Vaccines are among the most powerful tools in modern medicine; they have indisputably saved millions of lives,
But when guidance about their use becomes inconsistent or politicized, it undermines public trust at precisely the moment we need it most.
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