{"id":32969,"date":"2021-03-17T22:31:56","date_gmt":"2021-03-18T05:31:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/?p=32969"},"modified":"2021-03-17T22:31:56","modified_gmt":"2021-03-18T05:31:56","slug":"cdc-addresses-vulnerable-communities","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/?p=32969","title":{"rendered":"CDC addresses\u00a0vulnerable communities\u00a0"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Included in the funding announcement for schools was a $2.25 billion initiative to address health equity issues. The grant, funded through the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, will expand health services to help reduce COVID-19 health disparities.<\/p>\n<p>CDC said the funding is the agency&#8217;s largest investment to date to support communities affected by COVID-19-related health disparities.<\/p>\n<p>The two year grants will go to 108 public health departments for bolstered COVID-19 testing and contact tracing capabilities in underserved communities and populations, including racial and ethnic minority groups and people living in rural areas.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Everyone in America should have equal opportunity to be as healthy as possible,\u201d CDC director Rochelle Walensky said in a statement. \u201cThis investment will be monumental in anchoring equity at the center of our nation\u2019s COVID-19 response\u2014and is a key step forward in bringing resources and focus to health inequities that have for far too long persisted in our country.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Included in the funding announcement for&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-32969","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-health"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32969","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=32969"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32969\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":32970,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32969\/revisions\/32970"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=32969"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=32969"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=32969"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}