More than 12 vaccine clinics have been canceled in Pima County, Arizona.
The same was true of Media Blitz, which brings low -income children to the latest state in Waika County, Nevada.
The planned clinics were also confused Texas,,, Minnesotaand WashingtonElsewhere.
After the Federal Disease Control and Prevention Center, the nation’s vaccination efforts have increased. Suddenly, $ 11.4 billion was canceled Covid -related funds for state and local health departments at the end of March.
Federal judge Temporarily blocked the cut Last week, however, many organizations, which are funded, said they should raise concerns due to the resurrection of measles, increased vaccine hesitation, and distrust of public health institutions.
Former US surgeon Jerome Adams told KFF Health News that “I am concerned about the accessibility of vaccines for the vulnerable population.” Adams served in the first administration of President Donald Trump. “If there is no high vaccination rate, we are damage to prevent this population and the community.”
A spokesman for Vianca Rodriguez Feliciano said the Ministry of Health and Welfare, with CDC, did not mention in progress. But she originally sent a statement about action.
Nevertheless, the clinic also spent money to solve other preventive diseases such as the flu, MPOX and measles. more 500 measles So far, Texas has died of 57 hospitalization and two school -age children.
At the Pima County, Arizona, civil servants found that the federal government should end early in the vaccination program. Take it Subsidies of $ 1 million. Theresa Cullen, the County Health Department, said County should cancel about 20 vaccine events that offer already scheduled covid and flu. She said she could no longer plan.
This county is the home of Tucson, the second largest city in Arizona. But it is also far from many health clinics and pharmacies, and rural areas are widening, including parts of Tohono O’Dham National, she said.
County uses federal subsidies to provide free vaccines after working hours on rural areas, usual weekends or weekdays, CULLEN said. The program is held during the community organization, fairs and other events or on the bus inside the bus.
CULLEN said that cancellation of vaccine -related subsidies has more than a vaccination rate. The vaccination event also provides health education, connects people to other resources, and builds trust between the community and the public health system.
County leaders knew that at the end of June, CULLEN said that the Ministry of Health found a way to talk to the community and continue the event. Now we ‘sorry. We were dedicated to you and could not respect it. “She said.
CULLEN said, despite the fact that the judge temporarily blocked the cuts, the Ministry of Health said it would not start the case again.
She said, “Vaccine stock subsidies are subsidies from CDC to state.” The state is a person who ordered us to stop working.
The overall effect of the CDC cut is not yet clear in many places. California’s public health officials estimated that federal funds would be more than $ 880 million due to the termination of subsidies, including $ 330 million, which was used to monitor virus monitoring, test, child vaccines and health imbalances.
California’s Public Health Bureau said, “We are trying to evaluate the effects of these measures. Erica fan.
The surprise cut of the Federal Fund in Yi Bada, Nevada, means the loss of the two contract staff who establish and advertise vaccinations. State government School vaccination for diseases such as measles.
“Our core team cannot be in two places at once.” Lisarot RitzCommunity and clinical health service department of Nevada northern public health.
She predicted that she would maintain the contractor by June, when the subsidies were scheduled for sunset. The Health District has been searching for money to protect the two workers for several weeks. They found enough to pay them by May.
Lottritz immediately canceled promotional Blitz, which focuses on keeping children on government insurance to the latest state. She said that the vaccine event of the public health clinic will continue, but it will be “very small” with fewer employees. Churches, senior centers and food banks will stop nurses who offer shots as they pay money to workers in May.
Lottritz said, “Employees have different responsibilities: they have no resources to do such an event because they have a visit to compliance and operating a clinic.
The effectiveness of cancellation will be reversed for a long time. Chad KingleyEarth Health Officer of Nevada Northern Public Health can take several years to feel the entire range of vaccinations.
“Our society does not have such a disease and collective knowledge of what they did,” he said.
Measles are the best of mind in Missouri, and meetings on strengthening the efforts of vaccinations throughout the state were suddenly canceled due to wounds.
According to the Chairman of the board of directors of Lynelle Philips, Missouri immuno Union, which organized the event from April 24 to 25, should also release half of the employees. Alliance that adjusts vaccinations and education throughout the state must now find alternative funds to maintain open form.
Philips said, “It is cruel and incomprehensible to do this in this country’s measles resurrection.”
The Dana Eby of the Health Bureau in New Madrid County, Missouri, was planning to share tips on building trust in vaccines in rural communities at the meeting. Children’s Vaccine ProgramCDC supports funds.
New Madrid has one of the highest childhood vaccination rates in the state, and is often famous even if the health results are often poor despite being part of most rural “buoyers” regions. More than 98%of County’s kindergarten, in 2023-24, had a low rate of about 91%of measles, fluorescence and rubella vaccines, and 61%of other counties.
42 -year -old EBY said, “Measles will be a problem before retirement.
There was a former surgeon ADAMS, which is scheduled to speak at the Missouri event, and he said he plans to emphasize the necessity of community cooperation and the importance of vaccination in protecting public health and reducing preventive diseases. He said the timing is particularly appropriate, given the explosion of Texas’s measles and the increase in the case of cough. Dead in Louisiana.
Adams said, “We can’t go back to the high American vaccination rate and make the United States healthy again.” At age 50, we cannot die with chronic diseases. Already died of measles or polio.
California Correspondent Christine Mai-Duc contributed to this article.
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