MDHHS previously received millions of dollars from FEMA over the last few years, including $44.9 million in 2023 as reimbursement for money spent to provide testing and reporting statewide between July 1, 2021, and Sept. 30, 2021. About $8.1 million of that grant covered testing and reporting...
Washington— President Trump signed an executive order Friday that prohibits schools and colleges withCOVID-19vaccine mandates from receiving federal money, though no states currently have such a requirement.The directive only applies to the COVID-19vaccine. All states require students to receive some...
“Given the incredibly low risk of serious COVID-19 illness for children and young adults, threatening to shut them out of an education is an intolerable infringement on personal freedom,” the order said. The order didn't identify specific sources of money ...
Herb Chambers, one of the region’s best known auto dealers, has agreed to pay $11.8 million to settle allegations that eight of his companies fraudulently obtained relief loans from the federal government during the COVID-19 pandemic, feder...
The economic threat posed by responses to COVID 19 endangers financing for long-term care across the states that is already inadequate and inequitable. Increasing the federal share of Medicaid spending as unemployment rises would mitigate fiscal pressure on states and preserve public services. But ...
The federal funding will hopefully allow the positives of this novel technology to be applied to the detection of SARS-CoV-2 antibodies used in testing of COVID-19. This outcome has potential global implications for diagnosis and treatment of those affected by the current pandemic. ...
ATLANTA (AP) — Georgia is awarding $234 million in federal COVID-19 relief fund to construct broadband internet to rural locations that don't currently have connections. Combined with $408 million from an earlier round of COVID-19 aid, plus money from the Federal Communications ...
COVID-19 in Prisons and Jails in the United States JAMA Internal Medicine Viewpoint August 1, 2020 This Viewpoint describes the importance of minimizing COVID-19 transmission in prisons and jails and details policies and programs for doing so. ...
President Trump signed an executive order Friday calling for withholding federal funds for schools and universities that impose a COVID-19 vaccine mandate, though no states currently have such a requirement. Tom LoBianco, national politics reporter for 24sight News, and Stephanie Lai, White House ...
Schools, colleges and states that require students to be immunized against COVID-19 may be at risk of losing federal money under a White House order signed by President Donald Trump.