| Covid-19 | Sep 29, 2020

Administration Announces $200 million from CDC to Jurisdictions for COVID-19 Vaccine Preparedness

HHS announced and issued notices of awards to to 64 jurisdictions for $200 million in CARES Act funding for vaccine preparedness, issued through the existing CDC Vaccines for Children cooperative agreement. A list of jurisdictions that received awards is available in the document linked in column J (see the column titled “COVID-19 Vaccine Preparedness Complete”). The press release indicates that the funds are intended to “plan for and implement COVID-19 vaccine services”; CDC has not yet made additional guidance about the funding–including its specific eligible uses–publicly available.