CA, OR, WA form a health alliance to fight misinformation

Former Centers for Disease Control and Prevention chiefs wrote a scathing op-ed this week criticizing RFK Jr.'s leadership of the Department of Health and Human Services. Today, as a response to what they describe as “the Trump administration’s destruction of the U.S. CDC’s credibility and scientific integrity,” the governors of California, Oregon, and Washington state launched a so-called “West Coast Health Alliance.” Under the pact, they’ll coordinate their states’ vaccine recommendations and “ensure residents remain protected by science, not politics.” Anne W. Rimoin , professor of epidemiology at the UCLA Fielding School of Public Health, tells KCRW that with national guidance so fractured right now, the alliance will ultimately be helpful. “What we know is that this alliance is be