Arizona allocates $100M in federal COVID-19 funding to counties

PHOENIX – Arizona officials announced Friday that the state is allocating $100 million of federal funding to county health departments to support COVID-19 testing and other pandemic mitigation efforts.

The money comes out of a $419 million award to Arizona last month from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s Epidemiology and Laboratory Capacity cooperative agreement. It was part of $19 billion the CDC handed out through the agreement to 64 jurisdictions, including all 50 states.

The Arizona Department of Health Services said in a press release it has to submit a complete budget for the funding to the CDC by mid-March.

Counties can apply to use the initial $100 million allocation for staffing, testing, disease surveillance and other activities related to combating COVID-19.

The allocation amounts were calculated using a formula that starts with a base of $100,000 per county and increases in proportion to population.

Maricopa County, which is home to more than 60% of the state’s residents, is eligible for $60.63 million, the largest allocation by far.

Here is the available funding by county (amounts rounded):

• Apache: $1.09 million
• Cochise: $1.9 million
• Coconino: $2.06 million
• Gila: $840,000
• Graham: $623,000
• Greenlee: $230,000
• La Paz: $390,000
• Maricopa: $60.63 million
• Mohave: $2.98 million
• Navajo: $1.62 million
• Pima: $14.36 million
• Pinal: $6.24 million
• Santa Cruz: $751,000
• Yavapai: $3.28 million
• Yuma: $3.01 million

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