Funding breakdown of Biden Administration’s latest COVID-19 investment

WASHINGTON — To improve the detection, monitoring, and mitigation of COVID-19 variants, the Biden Administration announced a $1.7 billion investment to help states fight the mutations.

$1 billion of the funding will help the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, states, and other jurisdictions to monitor the circulation of the variants.

$400 million will be used to support the launch of six new Centers of Excellence in Genomic Epidemiology. These centers of excellence will operate as partnerships between state health departments and academic institutions and will fuel cutting-edge research into genomic epidemiology.

For example, the partnerships could focus on developing new genomic surveillance tools to better track pathogens of public health interest with the objective of developing surveillance methods to be used more widely in the public health system. 

$300 million will go towards building and supporting a National Bioinformatics Infrastructure.

Experts use bioinformatics and complex computing to connect the dots between how pathogens spread and mutate to help solve outbreaks. This investment will support creating a unified system for sharing and analyzing data in a way that protects privacy but allows more informed decision-making.

State funding breakdown

Recipient	Name	Initial disbursement
AL	Alabama	$3,593,711
AK	Alaska	$1,301,896
AZ	Arizona	$4,898,780
AR	Arkansas	$2,557,921
CA	California (less LA County)	$17,091,936
CO	Colorado	$4,063,734
CT	Connecticut	$2,858,697
DE	Delaware	$1,434,966
DC	District of Columbia	$1,287,724
FL	Florida	$12,699,436
GA	Georgia	$6,732,998
HI	Hawaii	$1,677,852
ID	Idaho	$1,881,778
IL	Illinois (less Chicago)	$6,381,627
IN	Indiana	$4,598,546
IA	Iowa	$2,633,332
KS	Kansas	$2,500,516
KY	Kentucky	$3,354,450
LA	Louisiana	$3,453,954
ME	Maine	$1,638,483
MD	Maryland	$4,221,375
MA	Massachusetts	$4,686,602
MI	Michigan	$6,386,578
MN	Minnesota	$3,998,300
MS	Mississippi	$2,535,036
MO	Missouri	$4,271,779
MT	Montana	$1,487,165
NE	Nebraska	$1,962,725
NV	Nevada	$2,592,176
NH	New Hampshire	$1,646,998
NJ	New Jersey	$5,779,696
NM	New Mexico	$2,051,956
NY	New York (less NYC)	$7,007,315
NC	North Carolina	$6,661,942
ND	North Dakota	$1,318,662
OH	Ohio	$7,321,756
OK	Oklahoma	$3,073,880
OR	Oregon	$3,217,140
PA	Pennsylvania (less Philadelphia)	$7,062,902
RI	Rhode Island	$1,481,992
SC	South Carolina	$3,728,600
SD	South Dakota	$1,386,014
TN	Tennessee	$4,651,811
TX	Texas (less Houston)	$15,555,044
UT	Utah	$2,661,289
VT	Vermont	$1,242,807
VA	Virginia	$5,589,242
WA	Washington	$5,083,469
WV	West Virginia	$1,884,569
WI	Wisconsin	$4,098,728
WY	Wyoming	$1,217,959
CHI	Chicago	$2,380,016
HOU	Houston	$2,174,709
LAC	Los Angeles County	$6,415,283
NYC	New York City	$5,480,079
PHL	Philadelphia	$1,770,253
AS	American Samoa	$927,139
GU	Guam	$992,571
MH	Marshall Islands	$942,797
FM	Micronesia	$956,256
MP	Northern Marianas	$928,238
PW	Palau	$911,922
PR	Puerto Rico	$2,654,551
VI	Virgin Islands	$958,344

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