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A public health shakeup: COVID-funding cuts strip states of essential resources

FILE: Around 300 beds were set up Wednesday in the Moore Field House at Southern Connecticut State University to serve as overflow space for Yale New-Haven Hospital if COVID-19 cases surge in April 1st 2020.
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FILE: Around 300 beds were set up Wednesday in the Moore Field House at Southern Connecticut State University to serve as overflow space for Yale New-Haven Hospital if COVID-19 cases surge in April 1st 2020.

Public health officials are sounding the alarm.

In Connecticut, they say the Trump administration is cuttinge $150 million in federal grants allocated to the state –for disease surveillance, childhood immunizations, and more.

Those funds were allocated at the height of the COVID-19 pandemic. But COVID is still with us. And there’s also cases of bird flu, measles, and other infections in the U.S.

This week on the Wheelhouse, what the federal government’s cuts mean for public health here in Connecticut.

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Frankie Graziano is the host of 'The Wheelhouse,' focusing on how local and national politics impact the people of Connecticut.
Chloe Wynne is a producer for 'The Wheelhouse' and 'Where We Live.' She previously worked as a producer and reporter for the investigative podcast series, 'Admissible: Shreds of Evidence,' which was co-produced by VPM and Story Mechanics and distributed by iHeartRadio. She began her journalism career at inewsource, an investigative newsroom in San Diego, Calif., where she covered housing, education and crime. She earned her master’s degree from Columbia Journalism School in 2021, where she focused on audio storytelling.
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