A key Centers for Disease Control and Prevention panel this week is considering whether to roll back recommendations about who should get vaccinated, but California and some health insurance giants aren’t waiting to see.

On Wednesday, the West Coast Health Alliance released its recommendations for vaccinations during the 2025-2026 respiratory virus season. That alliance is a new partnership between California, Oregon, Washington and Hawaii to develop parallel recommendations for patients — bucking the CDC under Robert F. Kennedy, Jr., a longtime skeptic of vaccines. Gov. Gavin Newsom, other blue state governors, medical associations and even some top Republicans nationally have expressed concern that the CDC would not root its recommendations in evidence.

In the alliance’s guidance, thos

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