Disability News Round up - June 15, 2025
Trump’s First Surgeon General: RFK Jr. Purging the CDC Advisory Committee Will Put Lives at Risk
"Secretary Kennedy’s team argues that there is insufficient evidence to support updated COVID-19 vaccines for healthy Americans under 65, but this claim is unfounded. Years of data demonstrate that vaccines save lives and reduce hospitalizations across all age groups." by Dr. Jerome Adams on June 10, 2025 at TIME
RFK Jr. taps allies and COVID vaccine critics among picks for CDC advisory panel. Here's who's on the list. by Alexander Tin / edited By Paula Cohen, on June 12, 2025 at CBS News
"The picks announced by Kennedy include some close allies of the secretary and his inner circle. Several have a history of criticizing vaccine recommendations or questioning their safety. Some have ties to lawsuits against vaccine makers. One says he previously invested in a vaccine."
Why Are So Many Children Getting Long COVID? by Jasmine Laws on June 10, 2025 at Newsweek
"A study by Researching COVID to Enhance Recovery (RECOVER) last year found that up to 5.8 million American children now have long COVID. The authors wrote that this means between 10 to 20 percent of children who tested positive with COVID-19 went on to develop the condition. Their findings suggest that long COVID may have surpassed asthma—which around 5 million youngsters have—as the most common chronic condition experienced by American children."
Effort To Roll Back Federal Disability Rights Protections Alarms Advocates by Michelle Diament on June 9, 2025 at the Disability Scoop
"The Trump administration is quietly working to fast-track changes to a key disability rights law by circumventing typical procedures, advocates are warning.
Defying a Ban, Long Islanders Masked Up for “No Kings” by Julia Métraux and Artis Curiskis on June 14, 2025 at Mother Jones
"Mask bans are poised to help authorities crack down on protestors, an approach the right-wing Manhattan Institute’s model mask ban legislation promotes, and that willfully ignores the continuing use of masks to protect against Covid-19. "