Anonymous24 days ago
Washington became the latest state to formally sever its vaccine guidance from federal authorities when Governor Bob Ferguson signed House Bill 2242 on March 9, 2026, granting the state Department of Health independent authority to set immunization recommendations. The move is part of a broader national fracture — 28 states plus DC have now rejected the CDC's overhauled childhood vaccine schedule — triggered by HHS Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr.'s dismissal of the Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices and his unprecedented reduction of the routine childhood vaccine schedule from 17 diseases to 11.