Tonight on PBS News Weekend, with turmoil at the CDC, some governors are joining forces

to make their own vaccine recommendations.

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Good evening. I'm John Yang.

Amid the turmoil at the CDC, the debate over the federal government's vaccine policy remains as contentious as ever.

Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr.'s combative appearance on Capitol Hill this week did little to clear up the issue.

He was pressed by senators of both parties, including two Republicans or physicians.

Now, some states are taking matters into their own hands.

They're forming alliances to review scientific data and make their own vaccine recommendations.

The Democratic governors of California, Oregon, and Washington were

the first act. They were joined the next day by Hawaii. Earlier, I spoke with Hawaii Governor

Josh Green, a Democrat who's a physician. We are in a great time of crisis as far as public

health goes right now. The HHS administration led by Mr. Kennedy

is in disarray and it's causing a lot of concern across the country. We need to have good science.

We need data-based science. We need evidence-based science. And so my good friends, the three

governors from the West Coast, form this alliance. And I had a lot of experience as a physician and the person who dealt with COVID in Hawaii as lieutenant governor. So it just made a lot of sense. But we're going to try to guide the country in a positive way, just non-politically, but in a way that helps us, you know, protect bloods. How are you going to develop the recommendations?

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