A group of Democratic state governors has launched a new alliance aimed at coordinating their public health efforts.

They're framing it as a way to share data, messages about threats, emergency preparedness and public health policy — and as a rebuke to President Donald Trump's administration, which they say isn't doing its job in public health.

“At a time when the federal government is telling the states, ‘you’re on your own,’ governors are banding together,” Maryland Governor Wes Moore said in a statement.

The formation of the group touches off a new chapter in a partisan battle over public health measures that has been heightened by Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr.'s advisers declining to recommend COVID-19 vaccinations, instead leaving the choice to the individual.

Andrew Nixo

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