Local funding crisis threatens U.S. vaccine rollout

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RACE FOR A CURE
DECEMBER 31, 20207:05 AMUPDATED 3 HOURS AGO

By Carl O’Donnell, Rebecca Spalding

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King County, which represents greater Seattle, has $14 million of COVID-19 funding for 2021, roughly what it spends in a month to run public testing sites and other services, and a fraction of the $87 million emergency COVID-19 aid it received in 2020, said Ingrid Ulrey, the public health policy director for King County.

“We’ve been on pins and needles the whole last three or four months, watching what’s happening at the federal level, waiting, watching,” she said. When newly approved federal funds finally trickle down to her level, she expects them to be less than this year, insufficient and too late.

“It’s shockingly low,” she added. “We have a huge new, unprecedented, daunting task of vaccine delivery.” King County is at risk of being unable to hire the up to 40 additional nurses and administrators needed to begin the next wave of public vaccinations.

In counties across the United States, the funding crisis has limited the hiring of needed vaccine staff, delayed the creation of vaccination centers, and undermined efforts to raise public awareness, officials told Reuters.

Reporting By Rebecca Spalding and Carl O’Donnell; editing by Peter Henderson and Nick Zieminski

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-health-coronavirus-vaccines-distribut/local-funding-crisis-threatens-u-s-vaccine-rollout-idUSKBN295135

and as for trumpy and his comments, he did nothing except play golf..............



In 1947 smallpox out break in New York they did this, and Ali Velshii spoke about this;

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3323221/

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1. trump is all about "undermining." we'll never get what we need with putin in charge of the senate

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2. This is a war against a virus. Why couldn't the US military be put in charge of

providing any and all medical assistance? The federal funding of the military is a given so that alleviates the problem of money. I'm assuming that this has been evaluated as an option - so what/who is holding this up? I'm not familiar with how this all works but I'm guessing that someone here on DU could enlighten me.

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3. We only declare a war on something if the rich can make money on it. -nt

[Midnight Writer]

4. All the rich tech billionaires in Seattle and the city can't afford even very basic health services?

What is wrong with this picture?

Noblesse oblige is dead.