Earlier this month, the governors of Oregon, Washington and California announced they are forming a partnership called the West Coast Health Alliance. The goal of this new partnership is aimed at preserving access to vaccines and will also develop its own immunization guidelines.

This comes after the the Trump administration fired the new director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and several scientists resigned from the agency.

Now the group is sharing its guidelines recommending that everyone over 6 months of age should have access to the COVID-19 vaccine and that the vaccine should be accessible to “all who choose protection.”

Dean Sidelinger is the state epidemiologist for the Oregon Health Authority and joins us to share more on this new partnership and their recommendations.

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News Source : https://www.opb.org/article/2025/09/18/west-coast-states-including-oregon-form-alliance-to-protect-vaccines-and-share-their-recommendations/