Maricopa County’s COVID Response
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agencies and partners to supply cloth masks to low income s we enter July, and into the sixth month of the areas to ensure that no one is without a mask due to COVID-19 pandemic, based on Maricopa County’s financial hardship. Emergency Declaration on March 18th, the one thing To combat COVID-19, that has remained consistent Maricopa County received $399 is that the situation is ever Maricopa County provided PPE, million in federal Coronavirus changing. Maricopa County Aid, Relief and Economic is the fourth largest county in testing, and support in long term the country. As the repreSecurity (CARES) Act funding sentative on the Maricopa from the federal government. care facilities, assisted living County Board of Health for This funding must be spent by the Board of Supervisors December 31, 2020 on COVID-19 facilities, jails, homeless shelters response activities not already (Board), I have the honor and other congregate settings included in the budget. I am to work closely with Marcy grateful that we do not have Flanagan, executive director needing testing and infection to make government bigger to of the Maricopa County make a difference. Instead, Department of Public Health. control training. we can use federal dollars to Marcy and her team have improve existing county services. been working tirelessly on Under the plan approved by the county’s response to the Board, CARES Act funds will be distributed as follows: COVID-19 since late January when Maricopa County had its · Health emergency response: $83.5 million first positive case. · Homeless response and prevention: $40 million Our COVID-19 positive numbers have been some of the · Small business and nonprofit assistance: $23 million highest in the nation this summer. On June 19th, the Board · County services: $77.5 million of Supervisors adopted a county wide mask regulation to The Board reserved $175 million to address upcoming slow the spread. We know that it takes time to see the costs such as the anticipated second wave of COVID-19. The results of this regulation. We are working with community 8
ARIZONA PHYSICIAN | Summer 2020
