{"id":30155,"date":"2025-06-05T09:46:09","date_gmt":"2025-06-05T09:46:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/site.itshrt.com\/worldnews\/asthma-sufferers-could-be-at-greater-risk-if-trump-cuts-health-program\/"},"modified":"2025-06-05T09:46:09","modified_gmt":"2025-06-05T09:46:09","slug":"asthma-sufferers-could-be-at-greater-risk-if-trump-cuts-health-program","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/site.itshrt.com\/worldnews\/asthma-sufferers-could-be-at-greater-risk-if-trump-cuts-health-program\/","title":{"rendered":"Asthma sufferers could be at greater risk if Trump cuts health program"},"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 id=\"\">\n<p>Esther Bejarano&#8217;s son was 11 months old when asthma landed him in the hospital. She didn&#8217;t know what had triggered his symptoms \u2014 neither she nor her husband had asthma \u2014 but she suspected it was the pesticides sprayed on the agricultural fields near her family&#8217;s home.<\/p>\n<p>Pesticides are a <a href=\"https:\/\/pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov\/38868160\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">known contributor to asthma<\/a> and are commonly used where Bejarano lives in California&#8217;s Imperial Valley, a landlocked region that straddles two counties on the U.S.-Mexico border and is one of the main producers of the nation&#8217;s winter crops. It also has some of the worst air pollution in the nation and one of the highest rates of childhood asthma emergency room visits in the state, according to data collected by the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cdph.ca.gov\/Programs\/CCDPHP\/DEODC\/EHIB\/CPE\/Pages\/CaliforniaBreathingCountyAsthmaProfiles.aspx\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">California Department of Public Health.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Bejarano has since learned to manage her now-19-year-old son&#8217;s asthma and works at <a href=\"https:\/\/ccvhealth.org\/about\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Comite Civico del Valle<\/a>, a local rights organization focused on environmental justice in the Imperial Valley. The organization trains health care workers to educate patients on proper asthma management, enabling them to avoid hospitalization and eliminate triggers at home. The course is so popular that there&#8217;s a waiting list, Bejarano said.<\/p>\n<p>But the group&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/ccvhealth.org\/programs-single.php?program=23\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Asthma Management Academy<\/a> program and similar initiatives nationwide face extinction with the Trump administration&#8217;s mass layoffs, grant cancellations, and proposed budget <span class=\"link\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/news\/19-states-sue-rfk-jr-trump-hhs-layoffs\/\" target=\"_blank\" data-invalid-url-rewritten-http=\"\">cuts at the Department of Health and Human Services<\/a><\/span> and the <span class=\"link\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/news\/trump-administration-eases-epa-regulations-houston-could-pay-a-price\/\" target=\"_blank\" data-invalid-url-rewritten-http=\"\">Environmental Protection Agency<\/a><\/span>. Asthma experts fear the cumulative impact of the reductions could result in more ER visits and deaths, particularly for children and people in low-income communities \u2014 populations <a href=\"https:\/\/www.annallergy.org\/article\/S1081-1206(21)01132-7\/fulltext\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">disproportionately vulnerable<\/a> to the disease.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Asthma is a preventive condition,&#8221; Bejarano said. &#8220;No one should die of asthma.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Asthma can block airways, making it hard to breathe, and in severe cases can cause death if not treated quickly. Nearly 28 million people in the U.S. have asthma, and about 10 people still die every day from the disease, according to the <a href=\"https:\/\/community.aafa.org\/blog\/cdc-nacp-asthma-program-gone\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Asthma and Allergy Foundation of America<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>In May, the White House released a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.whitehouse.gov\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/Fiscal-Year-2026-Discretionary-Budget-Request.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">budget proposal<\/a> that would <a href=\"https:\/\/aafa.org\/aafa-calls-on-congress-to-restore-lifesaving-national-asthma-control-program\/#:~:text=Staffing%20cuts%20undertaken%20by%20the,budget%20permanently%20shutters%20this%20program.\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">permanently shutter<\/a>\u00a0the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention&#8217;s National Asthma Control Program, which was already gutted by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.statnews.com\/2025\/04\/04\/cdc-ashtma-control-lead-poisoning-environmental-health\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">federal health department layoffs<\/a> in April. It&#8217;s unclear whether Congress will approve the closure.<\/p>\n<p>Last year, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cdc.gov\/national-asthma-control-program\/php\/partners\/index.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">the program<\/a> allotted $33.5 million to state-administered initiatives in 27 states, Puerto Rico, and Washington, D.C., to help communities with asthma education. The funding is distributed in four-year grant cycles, during which the programs receive up to $725,000 each annually.<\/p>\n<p>Comite Civico del Valle&#8217;s academy in Southern California, a clinician workshop in Houston, and asthma medical management training in Allentown, Pennsylvania \u2014 <a href=\"https:\/\/aafa.org\/asthma-allergy-research\/our-research\/asthma-capitals\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">ranked the most challenging<\/a> U.S. city to live in with asthma \u2014 are among the programs largely surviving on these grants. The first year of the current grant cycle ends Aug. 31, and it&#8217;s unknown whether funding will continue beyond then.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Data suggests that the CDC&#8217;s National Asthma Control Program has had a significant impact. The agency&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/stacks.cdc.gov\/view\/cdc\/133926\/cdc_133926_DS1.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">own research<\/a> has shown that the program saves $71 in health care costs for every $1 invested. And the asthma death rate decreased 44% between the 1999 launch of the program and 2021, according to the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.lung.org\/research\/trends-in-lung-disease\/asthma-trends-brief\/trends-and-burden\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">American Lung Association<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Losing support from the CDC will have devastating impacts on asthma programs in states and communities across the country, programs that we know are improving the lives of millions of people with asthma,&#8221; said Anne Kelsey Lamb, director of the Public Health Institute&#8217;s Regional Asthma Management and Prevention program. &#8220;And the thing is that we know a lot about what works to help people keep their asthma well controlled, and that&#8217;s why it&#8217;s so devastating.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The Trump administration cited cost savings and efficiency in its April announcement of the cuts to HHS. Requests for comment from the White House and HHS&#8217;s CDC about cuts to federal asthma and related programs were not answered.<\/p>\n<h2>The information wars<\/h2>\n<p>Fresno, in the heart of California&#8217;s Central Valley, is one of the country&#8217;s top 20 &#8220;asthma capitals,&#8221; with high rates of asthma and related emergencies and deaths. It&#8217;s home to programs that receive funding through the National Asthma Control Program. Health care professionals there also rely on another aspect of the program that is under threat if it&#8217;s shuttered: countrywide data.<\/p>\n<p>The federal asthma program <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cdc.gov\/pcd\/issues\/2024\/24_0051.htm#:~:text=When%20the%20National%20Asthma%20Control,to%20achieve%20population%2Dlevel%20impact.\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">collects information<\/a> on asthma rates and offers a tool to study prevalence and rates of death from the disease, see what populations are most affected, and assess state and local trends. Asthma educators and health care providers worry that the loss of these numbers could be the biggest impact of the cuts, because it would mean a dearth of information crucial to forming educated recommendations and treatment plans.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;How do we justify the services we provide if the data isn&#8217;t there?&#8221; said Graciela Anaya, director of community health at the Central California Asthma Collaborative in Fresno.<\/p>\n<p>Mitchell Grayson, chair of the Asthma and Allergy Foundation&#8217;s Medical Scientific Council, is similarly concerned.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;My fear is we&#8217;re going to live in a world that is frozen in Jan. 19, 2025, as far as data, because that was the last time you know that this information was safely collected,&#8221; he said.<\/p>\n<p>Grayson, an allergist who practices in Columbus, Ohio, said he also worries government websites will delete important recommendations that asthma sufferers avoid heavy air pollution, get annual flu shots, and get COVID-19 vaccines.<\/p>\n<h2>Disproportionate risk<\/h2>\n<p>Asthma disproportionately affects communities of color because of &#8220;historic structural issues,&#8221; said Lynda Mitchell, CEO of the Asthma and Allergy Network, citing a higher likelihood of living in public housing or near highways and other pollution sources.<\/p>\n<p>She and other experts in the field said cuts to diversity initiatives across federal agencies, combined with the rollback of environmental protections, will have an outsize impact on these at-risk populations.<\/p>\n<p>In December, the Biden administration <a href=\"https:\/\/www.epa.gov\/newsreleases\/biden-harris-administration-announces-nearly-16-billion-environmental-and-climate\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">awarded nearly $1.6 billion<\/a> through the EPA&#8217;s Community Change Grants program to help disadvantaged communities address pollution and climate threats. The Trump administration moved to cut this funding in March. The grant freezes, which have been <a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/trump-covid-federal-money-lawsuit-restraining-order-hhs-4d534b9f04389161f71e3bc541e87d7a\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">temporarily blocked<\/a> by the courts, are part of a <a href=\"https:\/\/insideclimatenews.org\/news\/01052025\/trump-epa-funding-cuts-target-disadvantaged-communities\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">broader effort<\/a> by the Trump EPA to eliminate aid to environmental justice programs across the agency.<\/p>\n<p>In 2023 and 2024, the National Institutes of Health&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/heathealth.info\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024-annual-report-nih-cchi-compressed.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Climate Change and Health Initiative<\/a> received $40 million for research, including on the link between asthma and climate change. The Trump administration has <a href=\"https:\/\/www.propublica.org\/article\/nih-funding-climate-change-public-health\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">moved to cut<\/a> that money. And a <a href=\"https:\/\/media.nature.com\/original\/magazine-assets\/d41586-025-00954-y\/50788772\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">March memo<\/a> essentially halted all NIH grants focused on diversity, equity, and inclusion, or DEI \u2014 funds many of the asthma programs serving low-income communities rely on to operate.<\/p>\n<p>On top of those cuts, environmental advocates like Isabel Gonz\u00e1lez Whitaker of Memphis, Tennessee, worry that the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2025\/03\/12\/climate\/trump-ev-power-plant-rollbacks\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">proposed reversals<\/a> of environmental regulations will further harm the health of communities like hers that are already reeling from the effects of climate change. Shelby County, home to Memphis, recently <a href=\"https:\/\/www.lung.org\/research\/sota\/city-rankings\/states\/tennessee\/shelby\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">received an F<\/a> on the American Lung Association&#8217;s annual <a href=\"https:\/\/www.lung.org\/media\/press-releases\/state-of-the-air-2025\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">report card<\/a> for having so many high ozone days. Gonz\u00e1lez Whitaker is director of EcoMadres, a program within the national organization Moms for Clean Air that advocates for better environmental conditions for Latino communities.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Urgent asthma needs in communities are getting defunded at a time when I just see things getting worse in terms of deregulation,&#8221; said Gonz\u00e1lez Whitaker, who took her 12-year-old son to the hospital because of breathing issues for the first time this year. &#8220;We&#8217;re being assaulted by this data and science, which is clearly stating that we need to be doing better around preserving the regulations.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Back in California&#8217;s Imperial Valley \u2014 where the majority-Hispanic, working-class population surrounds California&#8217;s largest lake, the Salton Sea \u2014 is an area called Bombay Beach. Bejarano calls it the &#8220;forgotten community.&#8221; Homes there lack clean running water, because of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cvwd.org\/archive\/viewfile\/item\/367\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">naturally occurring arsenic<\/a> in the groundwater, and residents frequently experience a smell like rotten eggs blowing off the drying lakebed, exposing <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2021\/jul\/23\/salton-sea-california-lake-dust-drought-climate\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">decades of pesticide-tinged dirt<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>In 2022, a <a href=\"https:\/\/waterdesk.org\/2023\/08\/scientists-warned-of-a-salton-sea-disaster-no-one-listened\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">12-year-old girl died<\/a> in Bombay Beach after an asthma attack. Bejarano said she later learned that the girl&#8217;s school had recommended that she take part in Comite Civico del Valle&#8217;s at-home asthma education program. She said the girl was on the waiting list when she died.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It hit home. Her death showed the personal need we have here in Imperial County,&#8221; Bejarano said. &#8220;Deaths are preventable. Asthma is reversible. 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