SEATTLE — Citing a lack of faith in Secretary of Health Robert F. Kennedy's Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), Washington, Oregon and California are forming an alliance to issue their own vaccine recommendations.

The new group will be called the West Coast Health Alliance. The alliance will coordinate health guidelines and align its immunization recommendations with those of "respected national medical organizations," instead of those of the CDC, according to a Wednesday press release.

"This will allow residents to receive consistent, science-based recommendations they can rely on -- regardless of shifting federal actions," the release reads.

The governors of the three states called the "blatant politicization of the agency a direct assault on the health and safety of the

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