New York and Other States Form Health Bloc as Answer to Trump’s Policies

 

Northeastern governors, like their peers in the West, want to shore up public health and issue a stamp of approval for vaccines.

 

Sept. 18, 2025

 

"New York and several other Northeastern states are forging a regional public health coalition to issue vaccine recommendations and coordinate public health efforts in a rebuke to the Trump administration’s shifts on health policy.

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The effort is similar to the West Coast Health Alliance — a bloc of four Democratic-controlled Western states, including California — that issued its own vaccine guidance this week. Both the Western and Northeastern regional coalitions reflect efforts to shore up public health efforts and give a government stamp of approval to vaccines at a time when federal public health institutions are in retreat.

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Like the Western initiative, this one, known as the Northeast Public Health Collaborative, is particularly focused on encouraging widespread vaccination as the federal health secretary, Robert F. Kennedy Jr., wages a broad campaign against vaccines. In recent weeks, the federal government has canceled major contracts for vaccine research and development and imposed restrictions that limit access to updated versions of the coronavirus vaccine.

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Ms. Hochul on Thursday said the group of states had jointly decided to issue recommendations for who should receive the most recent coronavirus vaccines: infants and toddlers between 6 and 23 months old and adults older than 19. The recommendations state that healthy children older than 2 years and adolescents may be vaccinated against the coronavirus, and that any children with underlying health conditions should be vaccinated."

 

 

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Considering the disappointingly underwhelming outcome of the ACIP meeting, which will have little to no effect on present vaccine regulations, it looks that changes have to be done at individual State level. 

And this will result in a further polarization: 

- Nanny states like California and New York will take a hardliner-position by expanding/promoting/mandating the current vax-schedule and restrict exemptions

- Liberty states like Florida will abolish all vax-mandates and make them all 'voluntary'.  

This will lead to a further exodus from the 'Gov Knows Best and You Better Comply or Else' states towards those states that defend individual freedom of choice (a process that already started during the Covid-disaster).  

So in the end, the MAGA morons die off from their own stupidity. Works for me.

41 minutes ago, Stiddle Mump said:

Come on Kennedy; get stuck in and save the babes.

He's too busy driving around looking for another dead bear to put in Central Park, or maybe he's back on heroin.

33 minutes ago, cjinchiangrai said:

So in the end, the MAGA morons die off from their own stupidity. Works for me.

The Darwin award trophy factory is hiring... a bumper crop this year!