What Trump’s cuts to vaccine funding may mean for WA

Ahmed Ali has spent the last seven years building something for a South Seattle community he considers his home.

Inside a small storefront a few blocks from the light rail stop, Othello Station Pharmacy has largely flourished as a neighborhood space that provides prescriptions, medical screenings, vaccines and more. It has expanded even as other Seattle drugstores close. And during the COVID-19 pandemic, the pharmacy team stayed busy, diving into vaccination efforts and public health partnerships that focused on administering shots and correcting virus misinformation.

Ali thought much of this work would last, that the country would remember how COVID vaccines offered a way out of the pandemic, despite how politically divisive the topic became. But as 2025 progresses, Ali and his staff ha