Oregon, Washington and California announced today they will coordinate to provide residents with reliable vaccine information—a response, they say, to the Trump administration’s destruction of the credibility and scientific integrity of the U.S. Centers for Disease Control.
“President Donald 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,” the governors of the three states said in a written 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.”
In the wake of the Covid-19 pandemi