One of the vaccines on that schedule? Polio.
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I’m scared, too. But writer Audre Lorde’s words keep coming to my mind: “Your silence will not protect you.”

I can only hope that taking care of each other — and speaking out — will.

“I keep seeing stuff about the Dept of Education closing, the DEI stuff being messed with. Misinformation is sooo bad, I can’t tell what’s actually happening anymore,” my friend texted me as I sat down to write this letter. “The general unrest of it all has me so scared for [my daughter’s] future.”

I’m not saying our previous system was perfect. It wasn’t. That’s part of what led us here. And President Trump is holding true to many of his campaign promises — ones that people voted for. But many likely didn’t anticipate how those promises would affect their own healthcare access and outcomes.

The rapid changes happening at the federal level — mass layoffs, defunding of critical research and nonprofits, threats to Medicaid, Social Security, the Veterans Administration, and support for public school children — will all have local consequences.