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What the Budget Bill’s Public Health Cuts Mean for Public Safety
- In March, the Trump administration cut $11 billion in federal support and laid off thousands at national health agencies, including public health staff.
- These cuts followed COVID-19 pandemic grants allocated in 2021 that state and local health departments relied on for essential public health programs.
- The reductions forced layoffs of vaccination staff and disease specialists, ended free testing programs, and decreased outbreak response capacity in multiple states.
- Public health leaders warned the cuts threaten routine work and emergency readiness amid ongoing threats from measles, whooping cough, and bird flu, with uncertainty said to 'put lives at risk.'
- These reductions are shrinking public health infrastructure and could impair detection of new threats, while a coalition of states has legally challenged the funding cuts.
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Trump Administration: Cuts gut public health
Americans are losing a vast array of people and programs dedicated to keeping them healthy. State and local health departments responsible for critical work including inspecting restaurants, monitoring wastewater for harmful germs, responding to outbreaks and other tasks to protect…
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Cuts gut public health
Americans are losing a vast array of people and programs dedicated to keeping them healthy. State and local health departments responsible for critical work including inspecting restaurants, monitoring wastewater for harmful germs, responding to outbreaks and other tasks to protect…
Reforming Public Health Agencies: A Post-COVID Agenda
There can be no Covid-19 closure without public health reform. Too much went wrong during the dreadful pandemic that cost an estimated 1.2 million Americans their lives. Trump Administration officials should therefore resist the powerful temptation to jettison that unhappy experience down the Orwellian “memory hole.” Simply putting that divisive episode behind us would be a serious public disservice. Perhaps Dr. Scott Atlas, Hoover Institution S…
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