CDC addresses 9/11 health concerns

摘要

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) will solicit sources to provide federally funded medical monitoring and treatment to the thousands of 9/11 responders who live outside metropolitan New York City (NYC). When the Administration suddenly announced in December that it had abandoned plans to create such a program, the CDC expressed concerns over the availability of continued funding, even though Congress was in the process of approving another $108 million for 9/11 healthcare. According to the federally funded World Trade Center Health Registry, people from all 50 states and 431 of the 435 congressional districts nationwide were in lower Manhattan on or after 9/11 and now have serious concerns about their health. More than 10,000 of the 71,000 people enrolled in the Registry live outside the New York-New Jersey-Connecticut tristate area.