These departures observe Kevin Griffis, head of the CDC’s workplace of communications, who left final week; Robin Bailey, the company’s chief working officer, left late final month; and Nirav Shah, a former CDC principal deputy director.

Pulled funding

In the meantime, NBC News reported this afternoon that the Division of Well being and Human Companies (HHS) is pulling again $11.4 billion in funding from the company, which it allotted to state and native well being departments in addition to companions.

NBC reported that the funds have been largely used for COVID-19 testing and vaccination, and to assist neighborhood well being staff and initiatives that tackle pandemic well being disparities amongst high-risk and underserved populations, similar to rural communities and minority populations. The funds additionally supported world COVID-19 tasks.

“The COVID-19 pandemic is over, and HHS will now not waste billions of taxpayer {dollars} responding to a non-existent pandemic that People moved on from years in the past,” HHS Director of Communications Andrew Nixon stated in an announcement. “HHS is prioritizing funding tasks that can ship on President Trump’s mandate to handle our persistent illness epidemic and Make America Wholesome Once more.”

State well being departments informed NBC Information that they are nonetheless evaluating the affect of the withdrawn funding. On Monday, some grantees obtained notices that learn: “Now that the pandemic is over, the grants and cooperative agreements are now not vital as their restricted objective has run out.”

For the reason that public well being emergency for COVID-19 was declared over within the US on Could 11, 2023, over 92,000 People died from the pandemic virus, according to CDC data. In complete, the pandemic killed over 1.2 million within the US.