NJ forms multi-state health collective competing with CDC amid vax controversies Erin Vogt Published: September 19, 2025 NJ, states form public health collectives as CDC faces new vaccine recommendation (Joe Raedle/Getty Images)

New Jersey and six other states have created the Northeast Public Health Collaborative as four states on the West Coast also banded together in the face of "chaos" and confusion over vaccine recommendations this fall.

The collective was announced between sessions of the federal panel for vaccine recommendations, which was dismantled and then rebuilt by Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr.

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