“Of the $10.8 billion the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) estimates it spent in FY 2014, almost $1.4 billion went to ‘Public Health Preparedness and Response’ activities,” says the letter from Sens. Ted and John Cornyn and all 24 members of the House from Texas. The lawmakers point out that among the activities in the CDC budget is a Cities Readiness Initiative to “support local medical countermeasure distribution and dispensing planning in the nation’s 72 largest metropolitan statistical areas (MSA).” “Since Dallas is one of the cities in this initiative, and ground zero for the first U.S. Ebola case, it is especially...
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