by Brenda Baletti, PhD at the Defender
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) since 2021 has doled out hundreds of millions of dollars in grants for the creation of “culturally tailored” pro-vaccine materials and for training “influential messengers” to promote COVID-19 and flu vaccines to communities of color in every state across the country.
The grants are contingent on grantees assisting the government in the enforcement of “federal orders related to quarantine and isolation” — effectively making the grantees enforcers of U.S. health agencies’ recommendations and federal mandates.
Grant recipients also are required to collect community-level data and provide it to the CDC. All of the grants stipulate:…
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