San Antonio Metropolitan Health will continue to operate its childhood vaccination clinic — at least through the summer — despite warning in April that federal funding cuts by the Trump White House would force it to close the operation, Texas Public Radio reports.
This spring, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention slashed Metro Health’s “Vaccines for Children” grant funding by $500,000. At the time, officials said they would need to pause offering the childhood vaccination clinic starting July 1.
However, in a statement to TPR, Metro Health Director Claude A. Jacob now says his organization has retained sufficient staff to continue offering the clinic on its regular schedule throughout the summer. Even so, future funding remains uncertain, he also told the news outlet.
Metro Health’s immunization clinic administered more than 20,000 vaccines to 10,000 people last fiscal year thanks to the federal grant money, according to an earlier Express-News report. This spring’s federal cuts came as Metro Health and other health organizations across the state worked to respond to one of Texas’ worst measles outbreaks in years.
The State of Texas is expected to lose $117 million in Vaccines for Children and immunization grant funding as a result of federal cuts, according to TPR’s reporting.
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