Economics

Delays, snags hampered HHS pandemic relief efforts to vulnerable groups CIDRAP

A new US Government Accountability Office (GAO) report shows that the Department of Health and Human Services' (HHS's) distribution of federal pandemic relief funds to support communities disproportionately affected by COVID-19 was hampered by delayed state acceptance of the funds and resource problems.

CDC needs a reset requiring support from the federal level, new think tank report finds | CNN The US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention is in "a moment of peril" and a "strong, effective, and more accountable" agency is an urgent matter of national security, according to a new report from the Center for Strategic & International Studies' (CSIS) Commission on Strengthening America's Health Security. Carma Hassan CNN

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