by Brenda Baletti, Ph.D., Childrens Health Defense:
Fifteen Democratic governors launched an alliance to take public health into their own hands by targeting pandemic preparedness and vaccine coordination. An HHS spokesperson warned that the same states whose COVID-19 policies eroded trust are now “trying to reinvent public health under the guise of ‘coordination.’”
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Fifteen Democratic governors have launched an initiative to coordinate their public health efforts independently of national public health agencies, The Wall Street Journal reported on Wednesday.
The Governors Public Health Alliance plans to share data to monitor disease outbreaks, develop public health guidance and pandemic preparedness policies, and purchase vaccines and other products.
According to its website, still in development, the alliance is a “nonpartisan” nonprofit working together to “protect public health.” The alliance hasn’t yet divulged any funding sources.
Members say the alliance — created in response to federal public health policy under the Trump administration — will take on work typically performed by federal institutions housed within the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS).
Alliance members include California, Colorado, Connecticut, Delaware, Guam, Hawaii, Illinois, Maryland, Massachusetts, New Jersey, New York, North Carolina, Oregon, Rhode Island and Washington.
Several participating governors openly criticized recent federal health policies.
“When the federal government abandons science for conspiracy theories, slashes Medicaid, and undermines vaccine integrity, states must stand united to defend the facts,” Illinois Gov. JB Pritzker said in a statement reported in The Washington Post.
“At a time when the federal government is telling the states, ‘you’re on your own,’ governors are banding together,” Maryland Gov. Wes Moore stated in comments reported by The Associated Press.
HHS spokesperson Andrew Nixon told the Post that the states involved in the alliance enforced “unscientific school closures, toddler mask mandates, and vaccine passports during the COVID era.” Nixon added:
“Now, the same governors who eroded that trust are trying to reinvent public health under the guise of ‘coordination.’
“The Trump Administration and [U.S. Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr.] are rebuilding that trust by grounding every policy in rigorous evidence and gold standard science — not the failed politics of the pandemic.”
‘Nonpartisan’ alliance ‘effectively creates divergent public-health ecosystems’
Several members of the alliance — including California Gov. Gavin Newsom, Pritzker and Moore — are considering 2028 bids for the presidential election.
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