The Brief
- Dallas County has canceled more than 50 pop-up vaccination clinics and laid off 21 health workers.
- It’s a result of the federal government freezing two COVID-era grants that were providing $11.4 billion to health departments across the country.
- Some of Dallas County’s planned community vaccination events were meant to bring vaccines to people without transportation and to schools with low measles vaccination rates.
DALLAS – Dallas County Commissioners are learning the real impact of two federal health grants totaling $70 million that have been put on hold.
Some county health workers have already been laid off, and dozens of community events planned to provide immunizations against diseases have been scrapped.
Federal Health Funding Freezes
The backstory:
The Trump administration pulled back $11.4 billion in federal grants allocated during the COVID-19 pandemic, stating that the government should no longer waste taxpayer dollars on a nonexistent pandemic.…