Loss of federal epidemiology funding
Summary
The COVID-era Epidemiology Lab Capacity grant is ending and the feds aren't replacing it, leaving counties everywhere scrambling to keep the disease-tracking capacity they built. Health Department leaders said finding alternative funding is a top budget priority.
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Last discussed May 18, 2026.
Impact analysis
The county is keeping about $1 million in reimbursements for this year, but could be on the hook for epidemiology costs going forward.
Residents get a final year of federally funded disease tracking while the county figures out what comes next.
If no replacement funding emerges, county taxpayers or the health department's other programs will absorb the cost.
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