After CDC TUMULT, CA creates a new public health resource


The medical assistant Letrice Smith fills in syringes during the Covid-19 Vaccination Clinic in the Community, managed by the Ravenswood Family Health Network at the Facebook headquarters in Menlo Park on April 10, the clinic will be held every Saturday until May 1, to reach Maybe, to reach the broad Photo by Ann Vernikov, Calmatters
Medical assistant fills in syringes during a Covid-19 Community Vaccination Clinic, managed at Facebook headquarters in Menlo Park on April 10, 2021. Photo by Anne Vernikov, Calmatters

If you do not want to take your medical advice from US Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy, you will soon be able to consult an alternative public health resource supported by the Blue States on the West Coast.

Governor Gavin Newo’s office said on Wednesday that California was joining the Alliance for the Health of the West Coast with Oregon and Washington to provide residents with vaccine safety information.

They unfolded the plan the same day when Florida’s employees walked the other direction, insisting on Eliminate all the mandates of the vaccineIncluding the requirements for children at school should be protected against measles, chicken pox and hepatitis B.

The three -state group comes as a high -profile procurement., Resignation and Changes to Policy ROIL Federal Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and Other infectious and severely Covid-19 variants are growing through California and other states this summer.

The Alliance echoes One California joined in 2020 To review the Covid-19 vaccines during President Donald Trump’s first administration.

  • Newsom., in a statement: “The mass dismissal of Trump of doctors and scientists of the CDC – and its screaming politicization of the agency – is a direct attack on the health and safety of the American people. CDC has become a political instrument that is increasingly giving out ideology instead of science, an ideology that will lead to serious consequences for health.”

Eight left -wing northeastern states, including Massachusetts, New York and Vermont, also have tied together To create their own regional public health body, separately from CDC.

Dr. Peter Chin-Hong, Professor of UCSF medicine specializing in infectious diseases, has caused some concerns about how different directions from different state coalitions can lead to confusion among public and health insurance companies.

  • Chin-Hon: “All this attack on vaccines and turmoil in the CDC and the turning of science upside down could not come in a worse time. The only people who suffer are members of the community who are confused about how they can protect themselves. They cannot get protection, even if they want.”

However, he welcomed the creation of the Western Union. So did the former Senator Richard Pan, the Sacramento doctor, who is the author of the State Law for 2015, imposing a stronger immunization protection for children.

It is important that government governments are “activated” when “the federal government can no longer be believed to provide impartial, facts -based recommendations for protecting our health,” Pan said.

  • Pan: “This is a major matter of public safety. You are as dead by the embryo as you are from a bullet or fire … We had one of the best public health organizations in the world and we decided to destroy it.”

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The speaker judges an assembly speaker

Installation spokesman Robert Rivas during the condominium session in the Capitol of the State in Sacramento on May 23, 2025. Photo of Fred Greves for Calmatters

By a policy and campaign of SalMatters Yue Stella Yu:

A former speaker of the California Assembly speaker Robert Rivas Understands before the Higher Democrat on Tuesday, claiming that she fired her and publicly avenges her after she claims that a colleague has harassed her sexually and after she raised complaints about Rivas’s brother’s influence on the legislator.

Cynthia Moreno was fired last month after an internal investigation found that she had made sexual remarks to “different employees”, according to edited documents published by the Assembly.

Moreno, who denied the prosecution, brought a case to the Supreme Court in Sacramento on Tuesday. She claims that Rivas failed to turn to her sexual harassment complaint against a former colleague. She also claims that Salinas’s Democrats brother, political strategist Rick Rivas, has had an illegal influence on the creation of his policy – a statement that has a Followed the speaker’s career for yearsS

Rivas spokesman Elizabeth Ashford rejected Moreno’s request as “an ex -employee’s attempt to force a payment.”

  • Ashford: “The speaker has withdrawn from all the issues related to the termination of Gi Moreno … We will fight these false and defamatory claims aggressively and we are sure that they will be seen for what they are: absolutely merit.”

What is Newsom doing? He doesn’t say

A man in a dark blue suit and tie stands in front of two American flags and looks serious.
Governor Newsom during a press conference at Swing Space Swing Space in Sacramento in Sacrato on August 21, 2025. A photo of Miguel Gutierrez -Jr., Calmatters

Governor NEWSOM has spent time in a number of things in recent months, including starting a podcast and visiting other countries in experience, some say to raise its national profile. So, while many of his critics kill the governor that they don’t focus enough time and attention in California, how does Newsom spend exactly his time?

It turns out, The answer is not so clearwrites Calmatters’ Alexey KossefS

In the last five months, the Newsom cabinet has not released any of its 2025 calendars, although it has done so in the past and Calmatters wants them every month. The service also ignores questions about the possible time limits for the entry required by law.

The last calendar provided to him on Calmatters was on April 1, which details the months of September to December 2024.

Although these calendars list only official events, which even then are sometimes edited, they still offer the public the most information about who talks with Newsom and how it gives priority to its time.

  • David LoyThe Law Director of the Coalition for the First Amendment: “We are not talking about hundreds and hundreds of records that need to be rounded and edited. This is quite simple. It is not difficult – or it should not be difficult.”

Read more hereS

Finally, did Sacramento raise the court order?

People dressed in camouflage clothing with vests labeled "police" And you hold weapons, stand in the middle of the street as the crowd shoots them during an immigration raid.
People encounter the US border patrol during an immigration raid in Bell on June 20, 2025. Photo by Carlin Style, Los Angeles Times through Getty Images

Five months after Federal Judge ordered the US Border Patrol to stop making unconscious arrests in the Eastern California County, ACLU workers and the United Ferms have filed a request accusing the Immigration Agency to execute this order. Read more by Calmatters’ Wendy Fry and Sergio OlmosS



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