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Covid19 => US General Discussion => Topic started by: Guy from NC on March 25, 2025, 08:38:14 pm

Title: Re: Trump administration to pull back billions in COVID funding from local health departments
Post by: rainn on March 25, 2025, 09:32:08 pm

And HHS is closing its Office of Long Covid Research and Practice, too.

Link: https://www.politico.com/news/2025/03/24/trump-administration-shuttering-office-of-long-covid-research-and-practice-00246836

Title: Re: Trump administration to pull back billions in COVID funding from local health departments
Post by: Data Report on March 25, 2025, 08:46:32 pm

This is horrible news. As is, we do not have enough funding for Long covid or surveillance on Covid and detecting new variants.

Title: Trump administration to pull back billions in COVID funding from local health departments
Post by: Guy from NC on March 25, 2025, 08:38:14 pm

Trump administration says it will pull back billions in COVID funding from local health departments
https://myfox8.com/news/ap-top-headlines/ap-trump-administration-says-it-will-pull-back-billions-in-covid-funding-from-local-health-departments/

“The COVID-19 pandemic is over, and HHS will no longer waste billions of taxpayer dollars responding to a non-existent pandemic that Americans moved on from years ago,” the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services said in a statement.

Just in case you were wondering where they stood on COVID.