Five states will lose federal dollars that were paying for 13 testing centers.
COVID-19 testing centers across five states are set to lose federal funding next week after the Trump administration decided not to extend the program that established them.
In a statement to HuffPost, Assistant Secretary for Health Brett Giroir confirmed that the program that originally funded 41 such sites across 48 states would end next week. “All 13 sites were provided an extra 30 days from the original transition date in May,” Giroir said, “and I personally spoke with Governors from all 5 states involved, and/or their leadership designees, who agreed that it was the appropriate time to transition out of the original 13 sites and into the thousands of new testing options.”
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