Arizona allocates $100M in federal COVID-19 funding to counties
Feb 19, 2021, 1:15 PM
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.
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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
