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CDC facing major funding cuts, with direct impact on state and local health departments | CNN (www.cnn.com)
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The US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention is poised to lose about $1.3 billion in funds as a result of last month’s federal debt ceiling negotiation that were initially allocated through Covid-19 supplemental funding, the agency shared with CNN.

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[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 year ago

This is especially bad because climate change will increase the mutations and spreading of new deadly diseases, whether it came from melted permafrost or zoonosis from contact with livestock or wildlife. This decreases the power to fight that.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago

This is bad, and there are too many people that think this is good. No organization that is centered on public health should be getting budget cuts unless they were audited and caught committing fraud.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

CDC should never, ever suffer a B-B-Billion dollar budget cut. We are so boned.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

But I'm sure we'll end up with a new aircraft carrier or something.