STAT+: States are the next vaccine battleground

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I’d call it a xeet-down, but I can’t tell who won this heated exchange on X between Gavin Newsom and Dr. Oz over the Medicare boss’ video about health care fraud in L.A. Send news tips and xeet beefs to John.Wilkerson@statnews.com or John_Wilkerson.07 on Signal.

The connections between health care and the ICE surge  

I wrote in Tuesday’s newsletter about how the latest killing of an ICE protestor complicates the passage of HHS spending legislation, but that’s not where the connections between health care and what’s happening in Minneapolis end.Continue to STAT+ to read the full story…