By Joseph Ax

NEW YORK (Reuters) -Seven northeastern U.S. states, including New York, Pennsylvania and New Jersey, have banded together to form a new public health coalition that will make its own vaccine recommendations in response to the Trump administration’s changes to federal vaccine policy.

The effort, called the Northeast Public Health Collaborative, resembles a similar collective of California and three other western states known as the West Coast Health Alliance, which issued its own vaccine recommendations on Wednesday that went further than the federal government’s latest guidelines.

The Northeast group includes Connecticut, Massachusetts, Maine and Rhode Island, as well as New York City, the largest U.S. city. Both groups are comprised solely of Democratic-led states.

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