Centers for Disease Control and Prevention informed the California Department of Public Health which he suspends the subsidies it had provided to support the response to state infectious diseases during the COVVI-19 pandemic.
The directive has been sent to the 50 states and will cancel around $ 12 billion in funding. Californian officials said they couldn't immediately say how the cuts would affect state services.
“We are working to assess the impact of these actions,” said Erica Pan, director of the State Department and State Health Health, in a press release.
The funding was allocated to the strongest of the COVVI-19 pandemic to help the state to monitor, tests and response from the respiratory virus, immunizations and vaccines for children, and to help treat health disparities, said Pan.
The cuts were reported earlier by NBC News, which cited a declaration by the spokesman for the Ministry of American Health and Social Services, Andrew Nixon, saying that the “Pandemic of 19 COVID-19 is finished, and the HHS will no longer waste billions of dollars in taxpayers who respond to non-existing pandemic that Americans have changed years ago.”
We do not know how much funding of the State had been awarded and how much is now fired, But a press release 2023 that the CDC granted the State a subsidy of $ 37 million to help strengthen the state health infrastructure, labor and data systems.
According to the press release, the start date of the grant was December 1, 2022 and should last until November 30, 2027.
It could not be immediately determined to the quantity of award already spent, but a large part was appointed to support the county health services, in particular the Department of Public Health of the County of Los Angeles, the Public Health Department of the County of Riverside, the Department of Health of Long Beach, the Department of Health of the County of Orange and the Public Health Department of San Bernardino.
Furthermore, Two other Grands Prix were provided by the CDC to California in the immediate wake of the cocovio pandemic: a subsidy of $ 555 million in 2020 and $ 1.7 billion as part of the Act on Additional Credits for the Coronavirus and Rescue of 2021.
The State Ministry of Public Health did not immediately respond for a request for comments on programs that may be affected by the cancellation of CDC financing, or how the monitoring, testing, response and immunization programs of the state of the state could be assigned.
The Los Angeles County Department of Public Health has received opinions from the federal government that associated with COVIvin is going to be canceled, a spokesperson for the department said. He also received an informal opinion from the State according to which subsidies related to the core for the vaccination services would probably be terminated.
“In total, these actions aimed at canceling … Funding associated with the covid will have an impact on more than $ 45 million in public health funding from Core de Core the county,” said the spokesperson. “A large part of this funding supports disease monitoring, public health laboratory services, epidemics surveys, infections control activities in health establishments and data transparency. We work to determine the impacts of the announcement of the loss of this funding. ”
According to Until 2025-26 the figures for the state budget, Governor Gavin Newsom allocated $ 5.1 billion to state health service; About 2.3 billion dollars come from federal funding.
Although the Congress initially authorized money for state health programs as part of its leafy rescue bills, it has since been authorized to be targeted on other programs, such as tests and monitoring other respiratory viruses.
California has been on the ground zero for H5N1 bird flu since last March. Thirty-eight people in the state were infected with the virus, most of them dairy who have been exposed to working with infected cows or milk. However, two of the people were children; The cause of their infection was not determined.
The virus also infected 756 dairy herds; More than 75% of the total of the State's dairy herds.
In addition, there have been eight cases of measles since the start of the year, in addition to thousands of cases of seasonal flu, COVID-19, Norovirus and RSV.
Pan said the state will continue to advance public health and work to protect people.
“All Californians deserve to live in healthy and prosperous communities, which is the role of public health,” she wrote in her declaration, saying that her department is “determined to seek the resources necessary to support the critical and wild infrastructure necessary to maintain healthy people and protect them against infectious diseases, diseases and health emergencies.”
