Last week, Jackie Griffiths appeared in her office at the Kolin County Health Care Clinic in North Texas ready to start its day – responding to emails from local doctors before heading to a nearby high school to overcome the latest vaccine record requirements.
Instead, the 60 -year -old registered nurse was called to the office of her managers and asked her to pack her property. She learned that the federal government had extracted funding, and taught it, and its position has disappeared – and it supports vaccination efforts for unbelievable children through a network of more than 60 introductions.
Throughout the country in New Hampshire, Kayla Hogan, 27, was hearing the same. She worked in the Ministry of Health and Humanitarian Services in the state, clinics and hospitals on board the plane in a data system that would help them manage free childhood vaccines. Now that the project is in danger, it threatens to pollinate children.
The discounts occupied by Griffiths, Hojan and many others whose work touches vaccines in dozens of states is part of 11.4 billion dollars in the money that the Ministry of Health and Humanitarian Services in the Ministry of Health and Humanitarianism undertaken by Robert F. More than two billion dollars have been taken from granting “immunization and vaccines for children”, which supports the provision of vaccines for children whose families may not be able to withstand their costs, According to the HHS list.
Kennedy, a long -term anti -al -Qahim, promised a well -documented history in enhancing wrong information, before confirming as HHS minister that he will not take away the vaccines. Since he took office, he has again and again Reduce The measles that are currently sweeping the country – the outbreaks that entered the hospital’s degrees from children and left at least two dead. He has pushed publicly installed treatments, including vitamin A systems And according to what was mentioned in the sick childrenAnd popular support for lame on the same vaccines – despite vaccines that offer the safer and most effective method to prevent many infectious diseases. Under his leadership, HHS supervised group shooting through federal health agencies, including employees responsible for the response of fascism and access to vaccines; Meetings that have been canceled or postponed to the consulting committees of independent vaccines; and The vaccine education campaigns ended.
The financing under its hour reduces further, turns his speech into reality and weakens the systems that provide life -saving care. Through comprehensive discounts to local health and state agencies, the new administration dismantles the fragile infrastructure that is quietly interconnected that transports childhood vaccines from the federal government to service providers, and ultimately, it is managed for children.
Discounts have struck health departments and medical services providers, data systems that follow vaccinations and non -profit coalitions that make the entire system work. They come in a moment when public health officials and preachers say that despite federal assurances, childhood vaccines are being attacked.
“This will affect every aspect of fortification: community awareness, education, health exhibitions, mobile clinics, and public health nurses,” said Claire Hanan, Executive Director of the Evance Manager Association. “It is disastrous.”
Twenty -three Washington, DC, filed a lawsuit against HHS and Kennedy this week for the seizure of funding.
HHS did not respond to the comment request.
Online, federal discounts were directed at the Kofid era projects that are no longer necessary.
Andrew Nixon, the ministry’s communications director, said that Andrew Nixon, “Covid-19, has ended, and HHS will not be lost billions of taxpayers who respond to an American epidemic for years.”
While an early wave of financing Covid focuses on testing, vaccines and handling healthy variations, where the epidemic has diminished, government health departments were allowed to convert these funds into other lack of financing – including grants that support childhood vaccines.
These grants are annexes Children’s vaccinesA federal entitlement program established by Congress in 1994 in response to the deadly measles epidemic, which is still intact. But her successful operation depends on financing “immunization and vaccines for children”, which got a temporary batch of Covid dollars that were re -allocated – until these funds were withdrawn last week.
Now, the discounts forced public health departments throughout the country to benefit from employees, cancel vaccine clinics, close education and communication programs, stop critical physical and virtual infrastructure promotions, according to news reports, were presented in the federal lawsuit against HHS and survey results conducted by the National Association of Health Responsible in the city and its participation with NBC.
In Dallas County, Texas, Health Director The discounts said It forced the cancellation of 50 societal vaccination events – including many schools with schools Low measles vaccination rates Amid increasing outbreaks.
In Minnesota, the Ministry of Health Declare This will produce 170 employees after losing more than $ 220 million in federal funds. Among the losses is a record of fortification in the state, which will not be promoted anymore – left Minnesota with one of the country’s most old tracking systems.
In California, the Ministry of Health said at Federal file He will not be able to provide childhood vaccines, including measles, for millions of children, nearly half of the state’s youth.
And in Washington State, the Ministry of Health Declare In response to discount programs targeting $ 20 million that target fortification programs, they will feel or lay off 46 workers and suspend the mobile clinic process, known as Care-A-Van. The 104 clinics, which were canceled 2000 vaccines, were expected to run, including those in rural areas and homeless population.
“We will just think strategically about how to reach these people who are difficult to reach,” Lacey Fernapach, Washington’s Head of Washington, told a press conference.
The study of the National Association of the Service of the Steel of Provinges and the City has acquired and more impacts: A Ministry of Ohio said it was planning to stop the training on the frequency of the vaccine. One in Indiana will lose two nurses traveling to schools to vaccinate children, so parents do not have to miss work. Texas will not be able to replace old equipment as planned.
Discounts also threaten a less clear but decisive part of vaccine infrastructure: data systems used by public health departments to record and share vaccinations. Child vaccines depend on these systems to request doses, agree to distribution and safety control.
He said health departments in Pennsylvania and other places in the statements made In the federal issue The discounts will prevent them from operating or upgrading these systems, forcing countries to rely on old, exhausting platforms. Poor data systems can leave parents and service providers without accessing vaccination records and increasing the risk of lost or duplicate doses.
Rebecca Cowell, Executive Director of the American Vacation Registry Association, indicated that these systems were born from the outbreak of measles that killed 89 children in the early 1990s, including A 11 -year -old girl He who died after being deprived of a vaccine – despite her father’s efforts to fortify her – because the clinic was unable to locate the correct records.
Dr. George Benjamin, Executive Director of the American Public Health Association, said that while a lot of attention is paid to parents who hesitate or fully refuse to vaccinate, children without access to vaccines are the ones who provide the clearest way to close the immunity gaps.
He said: “The way we get from 60 % of our population who have been fortified to more than 95 % is to focus on people who, for a variety of reasons, are having difficulty getting vaccination.” “This includes homeless individuals, low -income individuals, and people who do not have the primary care provider.”
Benjamin said that the discounts in these financing were shattered by the ability to reach these population “subsequently,” Benjamin. ”
Function alliances – non -profit organizations linking public health departments to societies to improve vaccination rates – play a major role as well. They are now their mostly backed by the federal dollar and the dollar at risk.
The discounts caused “tremendous damage” to the Endana fortification coalition, according to CEO Lisa Robertson, who said in a statement that its budget – was funded through centers of control and prevention control through the Ministry of Governmental Health – was completely reduced for this year and reduced by 75 % for the next fiscal year.
Robertson said: “The money panel will be serious consequences,” Robertson said.