Trump has canceled cocvid health grants. Here’s how a lot of this is losing

By Kristen HwangCalm

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California can lose more than a billion dollars in public health and mental health Funding following new federal budget cuts that target the COVVI-19 COVI-19 pandemic response subsidies, according to the website of the US Ministry of the Government.

The Federal Ministry of Health and Social Services dismissed $ 12 billion in subsidies for infectious response, mental health services and other public health problems, according to national reports.

Most of the money came from centers for Disease Control and Prevention, while $ 1 billion was cut off from the administration of drug addiction and mental health services.

Californian officials still compensate for the impact of the state because the Trump administration has recovered additional health subsidies that went to the counties and the University of California.

Throughout the state, local health services have reported various degrees of uncertainty on the cuts. Some have told Calmatters that they had been informed of subsistence of subsidies earlier in the week by the CDC, while others said that they had not yet been informed on Thursday but that the cuts still expected what happens.

Dr. Erica Pan, the best public health official in the state, confirmed in a statement that the CDC informed Californian officials that he intended to “end immediately” funding bounds, which was to last in some cases until 2027.

Money is currently supporting services such as respiratory virus tests and infantile surveillance and vaccinations. It is also used to improve public health data systems and to treat health disparities, said Pan.

In an interview with the news website Fierce health careThe State Health Department has said that dismissals of public health subsidies linked to the conversation total $ 709 million. The health service did not immediately confirm this number for calm.

In addition, the California Department of Health Care Services also tabled five subsidies this week totaling more than $ 700 million, according to the US website for government. Health services, who oversees state mental health programs and Medical The insurance program for low -income residents has not immediately answered questions about canceled financing.

Covated subsidies lasted several years

The federal government has granted billions of dollars in emergency emergency to state health services during the Pandemic COVID-19. After the end of the federal public health emergency in 2023, the congress authorized states to use money for other public health investments.

“All Californians deserve to live in healthy and prosperous communities, which is the role of public health,” said Pan health worker. “The CDPH remains determined to seek the resources necessary to support the critical and wild infrastructure necessary to keep people healthy and protect them from infectious diseases, vaccine preventable diseases and health emergencies.”

A representative of the United States Ministry of Health and Social Services defended the cuts.

“The Covide-19 pandemic is over, and HHS will no longer waste billions of dollars from taxpayers who respond to an nonexistent pandemic that the Americans have moved years ago,” said HHS communications director Andrew Nixon in a press release NBC Newswho first pointed out the cuts.

California uses money to meet a number of persistent public health challenges, including record rates of Sexually transmitted infectionsThe emerging threat of the bird flu and a fatal season of the flu.

Hundreds of dairy herds in the central valley have been Decimated by the bird fluor H5N1, in the largest epidemic in the country. At least 38 people have also been infected, including one Childless child known with cattle or other wild animals.

The most recent flu season was the deadliest In the years. According to state data, more than 1,400 people died in California, including 24 children and adolescents.

Michelle Gibbons, executive director of the County Health Executives Association of California, said that the capacity of local health services to fulfill vital functions will be seriously reduced by the loss of funding. Many departments have come to count on money for daily operations after decades of under-funding at the levels of the State and the federal government.

Following the cuts, the laboratories will have less test capacity and the surveys of the epidemics of the disease will slow down, said Gibbons. Data systems created with federal money to automatically report test results and monitor the availability of vaccines will return to spread sheets maintained manually, and health agencies will probably have to make difficult decisions concerning the dismissal of the staff, she said.

“Helping people understand the role and value of public health is difficult because when public health works, you don’t really see it,” said Gibbons. “(But) we have already seen what is happening when we withdraw the financing of our public health infrastructure.”

Doge Health cuts in the counties of UC and California

In addition to the hundreds of millions of dollars in subsidies eliminated by the California government, the government’s website’s website lists additional $ 103 million in subsidies directly in California counties. The money was intended for the counties of Riverside, Los Angeles, Sacramento, San Francisco, San Bernardino, San Diego and Tulare.

According to the website, an additional $ 169 million dollars of $ 169 million in health funding ended California universities, including six campuses from the University of California.

The University of California is part of an ongoing trial aimed at preventing the Trump administration from arresting billions of research funds allocated by the congress.

The officials of the Los Angeles County Department of Public Health declared in an unsigned declaration that an subsidy linked to epidemiology and laboratory capacities had been canceled by the federal government. The State Health Department has also given the county informal opinion that the financing of the county vaccination services will probably be terminated following federal action.

In total, the ministry plans to lose “more than $ 45 million in public health funding from Core de Core le Comté”.

“A large part of this funding supports illness monitoring, public health laboratory services, epidemics surveys, infections control activities in health establishments and data transparency,” officials said in the press release.

David Luchini, director of public health at the County of Fresno, said that the CDC put an end to the grant of disparities in health of its agency on Monday. The money was originally used during the COVVI-19 pandemic to help overcome government distrust within the community and connect people to COVVI-19 resources.

More recently, it was used to extend the Comté community health care network. Community health workers provide vaccination education, help people understand their health insurance and connect residents to housing food and resources. Now the county will have to terminate his contracts with these workers, said Luchini.

“It is not easy to navigate the health care system and that is why it was essential to have community organizations that are in these communities to educate people and to try to help them pass because it can be a frustrating experience, especially in the valley,” said Luchini.

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