MedPage Today March 31, 2025
— “It will limit our ability to respond” to disease outbreaks, says one health department
Cuts to the HHS staff and budget will have far-reaching effects on state and local health departments, and some repercussions have already begun, according to public health leaders and advocates.
At a press conference Friday sponsored by the Big Cities Health Coalition, Lori Tremmel Freeman, CEO of the National Association of County and City Health Officials, read off some comments she had received from member health departments affected by the cuts. “‘We will have to make cuts to immunization services in the community, lay off employees, and it will limit our ability to respond to disease investigations and outbreaks,'” said one. “‘We will face a...
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