States band together on vaccine recommendations in challenge to Trump administration

A group of Northeastern states and New York City on Thursday formally announced a joint public health coalition to collaborate on evidence-based public health, including vaccines, in a direct challenge to the Trump administration's efforts to upend federal vaccine policy. 

It’s the latest example of vaccine policy fracturing along party lines, as blue states seek to insulate their residents from the effects of the federal government's increasingly antagonistic stance toward...