Disability News Round up - May 24, 2025
A Chronically Ill Earth: COVID Organizing as a Model Climate Response in Los Angeles by Violet Affleck on May 18, 2025 at The Yale Global Health Review
"I spent the January fires in Los Angeles arguing with my mother in a hotel room. She was shell-shocked, astonished at the scale of destruction in the neighborhood where she raised myself and my siblings. I was surprised at her surprise: as a lifelong Angelena and climate-literate member of generation Z, my question had not been whether the Palisades would burn but when."
Tim Walz calls out RFK Jr on children’s health: ‘Just so blatantly false’, by Eric Garcia on May 20, 2025 at The Independent
"Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz ripped into Secretary of Health and Human Services Robert F. Kennedy Jr’s comments about autism and warned that the Trump administration’s cuts to the Department of Education posed a risk to students with disabilities."
FDA to Cut Covid Booster Access, Excluding In-Home Carers by Julia Métraux on May 20, 2025 in Mother Jones
"On Tuesday, the Food and Drug Administration announced that Covid booster shots will be limited to people over 65 and those with pre-existing health conditions that would put them at higher risk of acute complications."
Diseases are spreading. The CDC isn't warning the public like it was months ago by Chiara Eisner on May 21, 2025 on NPR
"But since President Trump's administration assumed power in January, many of the platforms the CDC used to communicate with the public have gone silent, an NPR analysis found."
Revealed: UnitedHealth secretly paid nursing homes to reduce hospital transfers by George Joseph May, 21 2025 at the Guardian
"A Guardian investigation finds insurer quietly paid facilities that helped it gain Medicare enrollees and reduce hospitalizations. Whistleblowers allege harm to residents"