Dear Governor Wolf and Secretary Levine,
The Pennsylvania Health Policy Coalition represents the state’s ten county and municipal health departments. The Coalition is following up on its April 27, 2020 letter urgently requesting funding to support COVID-19 response funding in order to safely reopen the Commonwealth’s economy. The Coalition is disappointed that it received no response to that letter.
Since the April 27 letter, the Coalition has learned that the Commonwealth has received grants from the CDC totaling $344,794,856, including a recent award of $301,036,686.(1) To date, the Commonwealth has distributed just $10,000,000, or 2.9 percent of CDC funds received, to Coalition members.