Those departures follow Kevin Griffis, head of the CDC’s workplace of interactions, who left recently; Robin Bailey, the firm’s chief running officer, left late last month; and Nirav Shah, a previous CDC principal deputy director.

Pulled financing

NBC News reported this afternoon that the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) is pulling back $11.4 billion in financing from the firm, which it designated to state and regional health departments as well as partners.

NBC reported that the funds were mostly utilized for COVID-19 screening and vaccination, and to support neighborhood health employees and efforts that attend to pandemic health variations amongst high-risk and underserved populations, such as rural neighborhoods and minority populations. The funds likewise supported worldwide COVID-19 jobs.

“The COVID-19 pandemic is over, and HHS will no longer waste billions of taxpayer dollars responding to a non-existent pandemic that Americans moved on from years ago,” HHS Director of Communications Andrew Nixon stated in a declaration. “HHS is prioritizing funding projects that will deliver on President Trump’s mandate to address our chronic disease epidemic and Make America Healthy Again.”

State health departments informed NBC News that they’re still assessing the effect of the withdrawn financing. On Monday, some beneficiaries got notifications that check out: “Now that the pandemic is over, the grants and cooperative agreements are no longer necessary as their limited purpose has run out.”

Considering that the general public health emergency situation for COVID-19 was stated over in the United States on May 11, 2023, over 92,000 Americans passed away from the pandemic infection, according to CDC information. In overall, the pandemic eliminated over 1.2 million in the United States.