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.
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
