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    People With High-Risk Disabilities Feel Left Out By California's Vaccine System

    California moved from a risk-based to an age-based system for the COVID-19 vaccine in January. People with disabilities say that pivot cast them aside and they should have been prioritized.
    by Adwoa Gyimah-Brempong Mar 09, 2021 3 minutes
    In January, after opening tiers 1A and 1B, California joined states like Connecticut and Indiana in pivoting from a risk-based strategy to an age-based one.

    On a blustery day in Los Angeles, Mimi Newman unlocks her front door to take the dogs outside. For Newman, "outside" is a relative term — she's been in strict quarantine since March 6, 2020. She's only gone past her front gate three times.

    Newman is severely immunocompromised. To a small degree, her medical history prepared her for the pandemic.

    "I have had periods of my life — years and years and years — where I had

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