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States with Democratic governors aren’t about to allow Trump and RFK Jr. to make COVID and other illnesses great again by gutting the national vaccine program without a fight.
It has been Democrats at the state level, whether they are governors or attorneys general, who have led the fight against the Trump administration.
The trend is continuing after RFK Jr. restricted millions of Americans from getting the COVID vaccine.
According to The New Republic:
Pritzker’s health department in Illinois is currently exploring the possibility of purchasing Covid-19 vaccines in bulk straight from manufacturers in response to the mess in Washington, a senior Illinois health official confirms to me. Meanwhile, a coalition of mostly-blue states led by Massachusetts Governor Maura Healey is planning to coordinate on the purchase and distribution of pediatric vaccines, should the federal government restrict access to them, according to a source familiar with ongoing discussions. This will likely include big states like New York and Pennsylvania.
One hopes and expects that there will be much more of this going forward. Democratic governors have numerous ways to fill the public health leadership void that Trump is creating, according to public health experts I interviewed.
