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Kali

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Thu Feb 17, 2022, 12:45 PM Feb 2022

Why an Arizona County Turned Down $1.9 Million in Covid Relief [View all]

Two Republican supervisors voted to reject the federal money, frustrating health care workers in rural Cochise County.

https://www.nytimes.com/2022/02/11/us/covid-relief-funds.html?searchResultPosition=1

The $1.9 million in pandemic aid would have gone a long way in Cochise County, a rural borderland where a winter of infections swamped hospitals. There was money for tracking cases. Testing in remote ranching towns. Funds fortifying the Arizona county’s strained health department.

But the county’s Republican-controlled board of supervisors stunned many residents and health care workers by voting last month to reject the federal money, becoming one of the rare places in America to turn down Covid-19 assistance from Washington.

“We’re done,” said Peggy Judd, one of two Republican supervisors who voted against accepting the money. “We’re treating it like the common cold.”


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