Laura Weiss/ lauralew105.bksky.social (she/her)
@lauralew105
Writer covering health justice, disability, labor, immigration, and more, mostly for Prism Reports & New Republic. Editor at @IndyKidsNews. Here for research.
“Recent policy changes around COVID-19 vaccines are already sowing chaos and confusion and restricting vaccine access — including for people who should still be eligible to receive them.” I wrote about RFK Jr’s anti-vax chaos for @thesicktimes: thesicktimes.org/2025/06/19/the…
Secretary Kennedy's actions are making it harder for people who want COVID-19 vaccines to get them. Reminder: the Secretary claimed he is not going to take anyone's vaccines away. He, apparently, was not sincere. newrepublic.com/article/196742… via @newrepublic @lauralew105
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“What should have been a straightforward vaccination turned into a Kafkaesque runaround—one that portends the chaos to come. The result will be… more transmission, more cases, more long Covid, hospitalizations, and deaths.” My latest for @newrepublic: newrepublic.com/article/196742…
"Leigh Haldeman, a nurse at a hospital in Seattle who is 32 weeks pregnant with her second child, was advised in early June by her medical team to get vaccinated... went to the closest Walgreens. The staff there immediately noticed she was pregnant and told her they couldn’t."
“What should have been a straightforward vaccination turned into a Kafkaesque runaround—one that portends the chaos to come. The result will be… more transmission, more cases, more long Covid, hospitalizations, and deaths.” My latest for @newrepublic: newrepublic.com/article/196742…
“What should have been a straightforward vaccination turned into a Kafkaesque runaround—one that portends the chaos to come. The result will be… more transmission, more cases, more long Covid, hospitalizations, and deaths.” My latest for @newrepublic: newrepublic.com/article/196742…
It’s time. Someone needs to name their cat Zohran Meowdani. -signed, the owner of Bella Catara Ocatsio Cortez
Every line in Vinay Prasad's justfication for restricting Covid vaccine access from children -- against FDA staffers' recommendations -- is a total falsehood. biospace.com/fda/vinay-pras…
The Pentagon, which has failed 7 straight audits, just gave $200,000,000 of our tax dollars to Elon Musk to use xAI. Meanwhile, funding for food banks were cut in the name of “efficiency.”
Not a single word of explanation for overturning well-reasoned and thorough district court and appeals court decisions. This Court's fundamental legitimacy crumbles further away every time they do this.
BREAKING: The Supreme Court allows Trump to gut the Department of Education, over the dissent of the three Democratic appointees.
True to form, Andrew Cuomo once again refuses to accept that no means no.
Super helpful from @dr_kkjetelina: Last winter’s COVID-19 vaccines provided 30-40% protection against urgent care visits, and protection is remaining stable for longer (6+ months)! yourlocalepidemiologist.substack.com/p/vaccine-poli…
Everything sucks but I just really appreciate the B44 and B44 SBS bus lines. Thank you for connecting Brooklyn to Brooklyn. 🙏
Interesting read because first President Obama and then President Biden tried to give Kerr County funds to update their Flood Warning Systems, but they REJECTED it from Obama but then Senator John Cornyn told them to KEEP the cash from Biden and still not update the system -
WOW. Further confirmation from ICE HSI officers that they have been told to stop investigating pedophiles, human traffickers, and drug smugglers! Officers have been told NOT to take new criminal cases so they can instead go round up more random migrants. Morale is plummeting.
NEW: President Trump loves ICE. But a “mission impossible” deportation campaign has left many employees burned out, morally conflicted and miserable, @NickMiroff writes. theatlantic.com/politics/archi…
“As the state arrests and deports one marginalized group- undocumented migrant workers - it now expects to call on another - poor, mostly disabled people on Medicaid- to step in and take over that labor.” open.substack.com/pub/thegauntle… @julia_doubleday
Nooooo berkeleyside.org/2025/07/03/hal…
I wrote about the impact of the Medicaid cuts for @prismreports, which had then passed the House. Now, they've passed the Senate in even worse form. The only hope left is improvements back in the House, but not holding my breath. thehill.com/policy/healthc… prismreports.org/2025/06/18/med…
Our worst fears about Medicaid cuts are being realized: thehill.com/policy/healthc…
The fastest rising age group on sickness benefits is 25-34 year olds: up 69% in just five years
"People with #LongCovid belong in the ranks of any kind of left resistance, rather than demonized, mocked, or shunted to the side. There is no justice without health justice for everyone." "The World Health Organization still says we are in a pandemic." newrepublic.com/article/192738…
So, the results of the big vaccine committee meeting? They just... aren't voting on recommendations for Covid-19 shots, according to @dr_kkjetelina's newsletter today. So RFK's "decree" stands, I guess? This is NO way to make health policy. thesicktimes.org/2025/06/19/the…