US EditionTakeaways from AP’s report on how federal public health cuts are affecting communities across the US
- In March 2025, the Trump administration unexpectedly withdrew $11 billion in funding from state and local health agencies and dismissed thousands of CDC employees shortly thereafter.
- These cuts stem from a shift in federal priorities, with officials citing the pandemic's end while proposals seek to slash billions more from public health budgets.
- Local health agencies in places like Columbus, Nashville, and Mecklenburg lost staff and programs crucial for managing outbreaks, testing, and vaccinations.
- Public health officials caution that funding cuts have severely weakened essential but often overlooked services, with a Mecklenburg representative emphasizing that insufficient financial resources prevent effective responses to emerging and recurring health threats.
- The reductions threaten to impair responses to resurging diseases like measles and whooping cough and undermine the public health system’s ability to handle future outbreaks.
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Language service cutbacks raise fear of medical errors, misdiagnoses, deaths
Health nonprofits and medical interpreters warn that federal cuts have eliminated dozens of positions in California for community workers who help non-English speakers sign up for insurance coverage and navigate the health care system.
Deep cuts erode foundations of U.S. public health
CHARLOTTE, N.C. — Americans are losing a vast array of people and programs dedicated to keeping them healthy. Gone are specialists who were confronting a measles outbreak in Ohio, workers who drove a van to schools in North Carolina to offer vaccinations and a program that provided free tests to sick people in Tennessee. Read more...
Health cuts are affecting communities nationwide
CHARLOTTE, N.C. — Americans are losing a vast array of people and programs dedicated to keeping them healthy. State and local health departments responsible for invisible but critical work including inspecting restaurants, monitoring wastewater for harmful germs, responding to outbreaks…
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Daily PressDeep cuts erode the foundations of US public health system, threaten worse is to come
By LAURA UNGAR and MICHELLE R. SMITH CHARLOTTE — Americans are losing a vast array of people and programs dedicated to keeping them healthy. Gone are specialists who were confronting a measles outbreak in Ohio, workers who drove a van to schools in North Carolina to offer vaccinations and a program that provided free tests to sick people in Tennessee. State and local health departments responsible for invisible but critical work such as inspecti…
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