No, but such things can and are updated as they move along.
Like the 2019 Bill in congress that was eventually repurposed during 2020 and then decalred by some smart (not) cookies that hey! Look! A bill about covid 19 but it was tabled in ..... (dan dan daaan) 2019!!!!
So, this is how the funding goes. Each state Health Dept. executed a 5-year Cooperative Agreement with the CDC/HHS for Epidemiology & Surveillance of Emerging/Infectious Diseases. The first year of the contract was 2019. Each subsequent year's contract may have new work plan/funding added, but is considered a "continuation" of the original contract (2019). When COVID response money was given to HHS for surveillance and response, the govt. wanted to get it out fast and dumped the money into the existing Cooperative Agreements. If you follow the link from Ron's original post, there was no activity on this additional funding until summer of '20. The epidemiology cooperative agreements between the CDC & state Health Depts. have been using this type of cyclical funding via Cooperative Agreement since the 1980s.
August 2019.
Before COVID 19 was even coined as a term.
Was this a retroactive contract?
No, but such things can and are updated as they move along.
Like the 2019 Bill in congress that was eventually repurposed during 2020 and then decalred by some smart (not) cookies that hey! Look! A bill about covid 19 but it was tabled in ..... (dan dan daaan) 2019!!!!
Facepalm.
So, this is how the funding goes. Each state Health Dept. executed a 5-year Cooperative Agreement with the CDC/HHS for Epidemiology & Surveillance of Emerging/Infectious Diseases. The first year of the contract was 2019. Each subsequent year's contract may have new work plan/funding added, but is considered a "continuation" of the original contract (2019). When COVID response money was given to HHS for surveillance and response, the govt. wanted to get it out fast and dumped the money into the existing Cooperative Agreements. If you follow the link from Ron's original post, there was no activity on this additional funding until summer of '20. The epidemiology cooperative agreements between the CDC & state Health Depts. have been using this type of cyclical funding via Cooperative Agreement since the 1980s.
Ahhh, well, that clears it up! Thank you for that.