{"id":27491,"date":"2025-05-09T19:28:28","date_gmt":"2025-05-09T19:28:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/?p=27491"},"modified":"2025-05-09T20:28:24","modified_gmt":"2025-05-09T20:28:24","slug":"local-officials-brace-for-loss-of-disaster-preparedness-funding","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/?p=27491","title":{"rendered":"Local Officials Brace for Loss of Disaster Preparedness Funding"},"content":{"rendered":"
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The C.D.C. delivered $750 million annually to state and local health departments for emergency work. The program was eliminated in the Trump administration\u2019s budget blueprint.<\/p>\n

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St. Louis has been battered by two tornadoes in the past two months. A fire shut down a new nursing home last month in Enterprise, Ala., forcing residents to evacuate. Cleveland grappled with a power outage while inundated with visitors for the N.C.A.A. women\u2019s basketball Final Four.<\/p>\n

In each case, local health officials played a key role in containing the fallout, assisting hospitals, finding new homes for displaced residents, and coordinating efforts with fire, police and other city departments.<\/p>\n

The funding for this work, about $735 million in total, comes from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. In President Trump\u2019s proposed budget, the money has been zeroed out.<\/p>\n

The proposed cut has left health officials increasingly alarmed, particularly since it followed $12 billion in cuts to state and local health departments<\/a> in March. Nineteen states and the District of Columbia have sued to prevent the reductions<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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\u201cMan-made and natural disasters don\u2019t depend on federal funding, but a response to save lives does,\u201d said Dr. Matifadza Hlatshwayo Davis, health director for St. Louis. (Dr. Davis has resigned but is staying on until the city finds a replacement.)<\/p>\n

The city is coping with huge sinkholes, routinely faces floods, and sits on a fault line that puts it at risk of earthquakes. \u201cWe really rely heavily on this funding,\u201d Dr. Davis said. Without it, \u201cthe entire population of St. Louis and its visitors would be left vulnerable.\u201d<\/p>\n

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The C.D.C. delivered $750 million annually to state and local health departments for emergency work. The program was eliminated in the Trump administration\u2019s budget blueprint.St. Louis has been battered by two tornadoes in the past two months. A fire shut down a new nursing home last month in Enterprise, Ala., forcing residents to evacuate. Cleveland grappled with a power outage while inundated with visitors for the N.C.A.A. women\u2019s basketball Final Four.In each case, local health officials played a key role in containing the fallout, assisting hospitals, finding new homes for displaced residents, and coordinating efforts with fire, police and other city departments.The funding for this work, about $735 million in total, comes from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. In President Trump\u2019s proposed budget, the money has been zeroed out.The proposed cut has left health officials increasingly alarmed, particularly since it followed $12 billion in cuts to state and local health departments in March. Nineteen states and the District of Columbia have sued to prevent the reductions.\u201cMan-made and natural disasters don\u2019t depend on federal funding, but a response to save lives does,\u201d said Dr. Matifadza Hlatshwayo Davis, health director for St. Louis. (Dr. Davis has resigned but is staying on until the city finds a replacement.)The city is coping with huge sinkholes, routinely faces floods, and sits on a fault line that puts it at risk of earthquakes. \u201cWe really rely heavily on this funding,\u201d Dr. Davis said. Without it, \u201cthe entire population of St. Louis and its visitors would be left vulnerable.\u201dWe are having trouble retrieving the article content.Please enable JavaScript in your browser settings.Thank you for your patience while we verify access. If you are in Reader mode please exit and\u00a0log into\u00a0your Times account, or\u00a0subscribe\u00a0for all of The Times.Thank you for your patience while we verify access.Already a subscriber?\u00a0Log in.Want all of The Times?\u00a0Subscribe.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":27493,"comment_status":"close","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-27491","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-science"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27491","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=27491"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27491\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":27494,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27491\/revisions\/27494"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/27493"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=27491"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=27491"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=27491"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}