CDC distributes $11B to expand COVID-19 testing capacity

May 19, 2020 - 02:57 PM
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The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention yesterday awarded $10.25 billion from the Paycheck Protection Program and Health Care Enhancement Act to states, territories and local jurisdictions, and $750 million to tribal health programs to expand COVID-19 testing capacity and related activities. The funding will help them develop, purchase, administer, process and analyze COVID-19 tests, and trace and monitor contacts of infected people.

“As the Nation cautiously begins the phased approach to reopening, this considerable investment in expanding both testing and contact tracing capacity for states, localities, territories and tribal communities is essential,” said CDC Director Robert Redfield, M.D.

View the latest funding allocations as well as previous COVID-19 allocations to the jurisdictions here.

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