Denis - The COVID info guy -<p>🇺🇸 USA: Trump administration says it will pull back billions in COVID funding from local health departments.</p><p>"Federal health officials said Tuesday they are pulling back $11.4 billion in COVID-19-related funds for local public health departments and other health organizations throughout the nation."</p><p>"Although the COVID federal public health emergency has ended, the virus is still killing Americans: 458 people per week on average have died from COVID over the past four weeks, according to CDC data."</p><p>"Officials said the money was largely used for COVID-19 testing, vaccination and global projects as well as community health workers responding to COVID and a program established in 2021 to address COVID health disparities among high-risk and underserved patients, including those in minority populations."</p><p><a href="https://aus.social/tags/COVID19USA" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>COVID19USA</span></a> <a href="https://aus.social/tags/COVIDisNotOVER" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>COVIDisNotOVER</span></a> <a href="https://aus.social/tags/PANDEMICIsNotOVER" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>PANDEMICIsNotOVER</span></a> <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://a.gup.pe/u/auscovid19" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>auscovid19</span></a></span> </p><p>Source: <a href="https://archive.md/AvknI" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="">archive.md/AvknI</span><span class="invisible"></span></a></p>