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MaddowBlog-States fight back as Trump's CDC wages war on health and science
What do Americans do when the authoritative source our doctors turn to for the best scientific guidance can no longer be trusted?
States fight back as Trump’s CDC wages war on health and science - MS NOW
— (@oc88.bsky.social) 2025-12-09T21:21:38.961Z
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https://www.ms.now/rachel-maddow-show/maddowblog/states-fight-trump-cdc-hepatitis-b-vaccine-trump-robert-f-kennedy-jr
Take the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. For decades, the CDC has been the gold standard of science and health data, not just for this country but for the world. That was, until now.
You may have heard that, a few days ago, Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s handpicked CDC advisory panel voted to roll back the long-standing recommendation to vaccinate babies for hepatitis B, even though universal vaccination is credited with virtually eliminating the virus among newborns in the United States.
Later that day, Kennedy’s CDC panel welcomed a lengthy presentation, 76 slides long, about vaccines — not from a doctor or public health expert, but from the secretary’s personal attorney, who has demanded, among other things, that the government should revoke its approval of the polio vaccine — because who among us is not interested in bringing polio back at scale in the U.S......
Turns out, there’s a plan: A few months ago, groups of states in the West and the Northeast formed their own health alliances to provide their residents with guidance about vaccines, based on the best scientific evidence.
After the advisory panel’s hepatitis B vote, these new health alliances rejected the CDC’s advice and told doctors and patients in their states to continue vaccinating at birth.
Just last week in Illinois, Gov. JB Pritzker signed a bill ordering his state’s health department to establish vaccine guidelines for its residents, to make vaccines more available to Illinois children, and to require insurance companies to cover them.....
If states and health institutions, and even insurance companies, start turning away from the federal government to create their own health infrastructure across the country, by necessity, that is a very different kind of country than the one we have been living in.
You may have heard that, a few days ago, Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s handpicked CDC advisory panel voted to roll back the long-standing recommendation to vaccinate babies for hepatitis B, even though universal vaccination is credited with virtually eliminating the virus among newborns in the United States.
Later that day, Kennedy’s CDC panel welcomed a lengthy presentation, 76 slides long, about vaccines — not from a doctor or public health expert, but from the secretary’s personal attorney, who has demanded, among other things, that the government should revoke its approval of the polio vaccine — because who among us is not interested in bringing polio back at scale in the U.S......
Turns out, there’s a plan: A few months ago, groups of states in the West and the Northeast formed their own health alliances to provide their residents with guidance about vaccines, based on the best scientific evidence.
After the advisory panel’s hepatitis B vote, these new health alliances rejected the CDC’s advice and told doctors and patients in their states to continue vaccinating at birth.
Just last week in Illinois, Gov. JB Pritzker signed a bill ordering his state’s health department to establish vaccine guidelines for its residents, to make vaccines more available to Illinois children, and to require insurance companies to cover them.....
If states and health institutions, and even insurance companies, start turning away from the federal government to create their own health infrastructure across the country, by necessity, that is a very different kind of country than the one we have been living in.
Rachel was great on this issue last night