内容摘要：the virus attacking the brain, damaging and clotting blood vessels and causing seizures and death.

the virus attacking the brain, damaging and clotting blood vessels and causing seizures and death.

When the Trump administration pulled $11 billion from state and local health departments without warning in March, then laid off thousands of people at CDC a week later, public health leaders said the cuts delivered a serious blow to communities across the country.All eight employees dedicated to the mobile vaccine program in Mecklenburg were laid off. Nine disease intervention specialists in Columbus, Ohio, were let go as the department prepared to address a measles outbreak. Nashville had to end a program offering free flu and COVID tests.

Meanwhile, tobacco hotlines, early intervention programs for children who are deaf or hard of hearing, and programs to prevent drowning are all being affected in states and communities because CDC teams were laid off.A spokesman for the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services said HHS is reorganizing what he said were “broken systems” and rejected “the implication that HHS has turned its back on urgent health threats.”HHS justified the grant cancellations by saying the money was for COVID and the pandemic is over. But most of the cuts were in areas that are especially important given today’s health threats, including epidemiology and laboratory capacity as well as immunizations.

Connecticut’s state health commissioner told a Democratic congressional hearing the current uncertainty “puts lives at risk.”The new cuts are especially damaging because health departments are funded differently than other government agencies meant to protect the public: Funding pours in during emergencies and slows to a relative trickle when they subside. Public health leaders often cite the contrast with fire departments, which are kept ready at all times, not scrambling to find firefighters and fire trucks when houses are already burning.

A temporary surge of money during the pandemic allowed some health departments to expand and strengthen programs. But by early this year, most of that money had disappeared, along with other COVID-era grants across the nation —

. Departments were again left brittle and vulnerable.in Thailand for Season 3 — this time, sadly, there’s no room for Jennifer Coolidge, who went overboard in the second season.

With the absence of her fan-favorite character Tanya comes the opportunity for other characters to win over the audience, when it returns to screens on Sky and HBO this Sunday.Vying for your love or loathing at the indulgent Thailand outpost is Michelle Monaghan’s vacationing TV actor and Aimee Lou Wood’s cool Brit.

as spa manager Belinda, herself a victim of Tanya’s flighty financial ways in the first season.makes her acting debut as a resort employee.