California, Washington and Oregon announced Wednesday they will form a new public health body to issue vaccine guidelines, saying the move is needed to counter the Trump administration's growing "politicization" of science.

The planned "West Coast Health Alliance" comes amid turmoil at the federal level following the ouster of Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) director Sue Monarez, who had clashed with Health Secretary and vaccine skeptic Robert F. Kennedy Jr. over immunization policy.

The alliance's formation comes after mass layoffs at the CDC, and a shooting outside the agency's headquarters in Atlanta by an anti-vaccine gunman that left a police officer dead.

"President (Donald) Trump's mass firing of CDC doctors and scientists -- and his blatant politicization of the

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