People can’t get COVID vaccines as cases surge. Anger is building against Trump

Sept. 5, 2025

 

"Every year around this time, like clockwork, Marty Lazniarz would plan to get his regular COVID-19 vaccine — essential protection before heading out on a trip.  But this year, trying to get his routine shot has been anything but.

 

The 70-year-old retiree from Long Beach said it has been frustratingly difficult to get a COVID vaccine on time this year because of how the Trump administration has effectively postponed delivery of the shots, and made it harder for people to get them.  “The amount of confusion surrounding availability of the new vaccine has been maddening,” said Lazniarz, who lost his best friend to COVID a year and a half ago.

 

He’s far from the only one who is upset. Doctors and pharmacists report they are being inundated with questions about the uncertainty surrounding the long-available vaccines this fall.

 

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Not the PCR again? RIP Kary.

California pushes back on Trump’s CDC with West Coast Health Alliance

 

Sept. 3, 2025

 

"SACRAMENTO — With the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention in turmoil as vaccine skeptics gain influence in the Trump administration, California is partnering with Washington and Oregon to form a pact that will offer its own public health recommendations.

 

Govs. Gavin Newsom of California, Tina Kotek of Oregon and Bob Ferguson of Washington announced Wednesday the creation of the West Coast Health Alliance, which they said will provide science-based recommendations at a time when the nation’s top public health agency is reversing long-standing vaccine guidance.

 

Robert F. Kennedy Jr. , the secretary of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services and a loyal Trump ally, has dismissed top scientific advisors and fired top leadership at the CDC, moves that have shaken public confidence in its direction. And Kennedy has warned that more turnover could be coming.

 

“President Trump’s mass firing of CDC doctors and scientists — and his blatant politicization of the agency — is a direct assault on the health and safety of the American people,” the three governors said in a joint statement Wednesday. “The CDC has become a political tool that increasingly peddles ideology instead of science, ideology that will lead to severe health consequences.”

 

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If you're healthy you don't need it. Elderly and those with serious comorbidities can still get access.

50 minutes ago, dinsdale said:

If you're healthy you don't need it. Elderly and those with serious comorbidities can still get access.

 

The news report above contradicts your blanket claims about COVID vaccine access.

 

And, most Americans aren't "healthy" by the CDC's own definition of who should receive the COVID vaccines, given that there's a very long list developed by the CDC of conditions that put various people and groups at higher risk for bad outcomes from COVID infections.