The Department of Health and Human Services is rescinding over $11 billion in CDC-issued pandemic response funds, according to CNBC. HHS Director of Communications Andrew Nixon said the COVID-19 pandemic is over and funds would instead go toward chronic disease prevention under Trump’s Make America Healthy Again agenda. The rescinded grants had supported Covid testing, vaccination, community health workers, and initiatives targeting underserved populations.
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00:02Department of Health and Human Services is rescinding over $11 billion in CDC-issued
00:06pandemic response funds, according to CNBC. HHS Director of Communications Andrew Nixon
00:13said the COVID-19 pandemic is over and that funds would instead go towards chronic disease prevention
00:18under Trump's Make America Healthy Again agenda. The rescinded grants supported COVID testing,
00:23vaccination, community health workers, and initiatives targeting underserved populations.
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