{"id":24547,"date":"2025-05-09T19:38:41","date_gmt":"2025-05-09T19:38:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/site.itshrt.com\/worldnews\/local-officials-brace-for-loss-of-disaster-preparedness-funding\/"},"modified":"2025-05-09T19:38:41","modified_gmt":"2025-05-09T19:38:41","slug":"local-officials-brace-for-loss-of-disaster-preparedness-funding","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/site.itshrt.com\/worldnews\/local-officials-brace-for-loss-of-disaster-preparedness-funding\/","title":{"rendered":"Local Officials Brace for Loss of Disaster Preparedness Funding"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <script async src=\"https:\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js?client=ca-pub-6606220950177433\"\r\n     crossorigin=\"anonymous\"><\/script>\r\n<!-- ItShrt World News -->\r\n<ins class=\"adsbygoogle\"\r\n     style=\"display:block\"\r\n     data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-6606220950177433\"\r\n     data-ad-slot=\"1882483372\"\r\n     data-ad-format=\"auto\"\r\n     data-full-width-responsive=\"true\"><\/ins>\r\n<script>\r\n     (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});\r\n<\/script>\r\n<br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div data-testid=\"companionColumn-0\">\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">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<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">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<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">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<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">The proposed cut has left health officials increasingly alarmed, particularly since it followed <a class=\"css-yywogo\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2025\/03\/26\/health\/trump-state-health-grants-cuts.html\" title=\"\">$12 billion in cuts to state and local health departments<\/a> in March. Nineteen states and the District of Columbia <a class=\"css-yywogo\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2025\/05\/05\/us\/politics\/states-lawsuit-trump-administration-hhs-cutbacks.html\" title=\"\">have sued to prevent the reductions<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<aside class=\"css-ew4tgv\" aria-label=\"companion column\"\/><\/div>\n<div data-testid=\"companionColumn-1\">\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">\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<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">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<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">The Department of Health and Human Services directed queries about the proposed budget to the Office of Management and Budget, which did not respond to a request for comment.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">The funds are funneled to local health departments through the Public Health Emergency Preparedness cooperative agreement. The program was created after the terrorist attacks of Sep. 11, 2001, to help the nation prepare for biological threats and other emergencies.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">The money helps officials manage the public health impacts of natural and man-made disasters and contain outbreaks of infectious diseases. It also pays the salaries of experienced officials who help prepare for, and mitigate, damage to public health.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<aside class=\"css-ew4tgv\" aria-label=\"companion column\"\/><\/div>\n<div data-testid=\"companionColumn-2\">\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">The amounts vary by jurisdiction. St. Louis and Cleveland each receive about $250,000, which covers the salaries of three staff members. Dallas, in contrast, receives nearly $2 million, paying the salaries of 17 employees.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">\u201cEspecially at the local level, you don\u2019t have a lot of buffers with these funds,\u201d said Dr. Philip Huang, director of Dallas County Health and Human Services in Texas.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">If the funds disappear, even big cities like Dallas will be hobbled during emergencies. \u201cThe smaller the health department, the bigger the impact is likely to be,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Dr. Davis said her department receives less than 1 percent of the St. Louis city budget. If public health emergency funds from the C.D.C. were to be cut, as the budget now proposes, neither Missouri nor the city is likely to make up the shortfall, she said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">\u201cThose people would lose their jobs immediately,\u201d Dr. Davis said of the employees funded by the grant.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<aside class=\"css-ew4tgv\" aria-label=\"companion column\"\/><\/div>\n<div data-testid=\"companionColumn-3\">\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">In Alabama, emergency preparedness programs are funded entirely through federal grants. Tornadoes, hurricanes and ice in the wintertime can all wreak havoc, necessitating the intervention of health officials.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">\u201cWe unfortunately get quite a bit of practice with those activities because they\u2019re not all that uncommon,\u201d said Dr. Scott Harris, state health officer at the Alabama Department of Public Health.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">In many jurisdictions, officials relied on hundreds of volunteers to help with vaccinations against Covid and mpox. But they still needed paid staff to coordinate those activities and train the volunteers, Dr. Huang said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">\u201cYou can\u2019t just have everyone show up and say, \u2018Yeah, I\u2019m a doctor,\u2019\u201d he said. City officials check volunteer\u2019s credentials, train them and mobilize them for emergencies as needed.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">In Cleveland, health officials charged with preparedness have on many occasions received calls in the middle of night from hospitals with possible cases of anthrax or some other infectious threat. <\/p>\n<\/div>\n<aside class=\"css-ew4tgv\" aria-label=\"companion column\"\/><\/div>\n<div data-testid=\"companionColumn-4\">\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">\u201cThis is an invisible work force because they\u2019re preparing for the worst case scenarios \u2014 which often don\u2019t happen, thank goodness,\u201d said Dr. David Margolius, director of public health for Cleveland. \u201cBut it\u2019s better to be prepared than be caught flat-footed.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Some officials have worried since the election that the Trump administration might not renew the programs when they ended. But they said they were unprepared for the money to be abruptly cut off, as <a class=\"css-yywogo\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2025\/03\/26\/health\/trump-state-health-grants-cuts.html\" title=\"\">other C.D.C. funding streams<\/a> have been.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">If Congress enacts the cuts, \u201cwe would have to scramble to figure out a situation for them,\u201d he said, referring to the employees funded by the program. \u201cIt\u2019s just completely unfair to these teams and to residents in Cleveland who count on these services.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<aside class=\"css-ew4tgv\" aria-label=\"companion column\"\/><\/div>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js?client=ca-pub-6606220950177433\"\r\n     crossorigin=\"anonymous\"><\/script>\r\n<!-- ItShrt World News -->\r\n<ins class=\"adsbygoogle\"\r\n     style=\"display:block\"\r\n     data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-6606220950177433\"\r\n     data-ad-slot=\"1882483372\"\r\n     data-ad-format=\"auto\"\r\n     data-full-width-responsive=\"true\"><\/ins>\r\n<script>\r\n     (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});\r\n<\/script>\r\n<br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2025\/05\/09\/health\/cdc-emergency-preparedness-funding.html\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>St. Louis has been battered by two tornadoes in the past two months. 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