Public health officials are sounding the alarm.
In ºÚÁϳԹÏÍø, they say the Trump administration is cuttinge $150 million in federal grants allocated to the state –for disease surveillance, childhood immunizations, and more.
Those funds were allocated at the height of the COVID-19 pandemic. But COVID is still with us. And there’s also cases of,, and other in the U.S.
This week on the Wheelhouse, what the federal government’s cuts mean for public health here in ºÚÁϳԹÏÍø.
GUESTS:
- Michayla Savitt, State government reporter, ºÚÁϳԹÏÍø
- Sujata Srinivasan, Senior health reporter, ºÚÁϳԹÏÍø
- , Chief Washington correspondent, KFF Health News
- , National public health correspondent, KFF Health News
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