{"id":9797,"date":"2020-12-01T10:52:44","date_gmt":"2020-12-01T15:52:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.indianz.com\/covid19\/?p=9797"},"modified":"2020-12-01T10:55:56","modified_gmt":"2020-12-01T15:55:56","slug":"rep-deb-haaland-d-new-mexico-4","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/indianz.com\/covid19\/2020\/12\/01\/rep-deb-haaland-d-new-mexico-4\/","title":{"rendered":"Rep. Deb Haaland (D-New Mexico)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>FOR\u00a0IMMEDIATE RELEASE<\/p>\n<p>December 1, 2020<\/p>\n<h4><strong>Haaland Co-Sponsors Bill to Fund COVID Testing &amp; Tracing<\/strong><\/h4>\n<p>\u2022 H.R.6666: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.congress.gov\/bill\/116th-congress\/house-bill\/6666\/\">COVID-19 Testing, Reaching, And Contacting Everyone (TRACE) Act<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Albuquerque, N.M.<\/strong>\u00a0\u2013\u00a0Congresswoman Deb Haaland (NM-01)\u00a0is co-sponsoring the\u00a0<em>COVID-19 Testing, Reaching, And Contacting Everyone (TRACE) Act<\/em>. This bill would establish a grant program run by the Centers\u00a0for\u00a0Disease Control and Prevention to allow stakeholders to fully mobilize testing and contact tracing efforts.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAs our state is facing another wave, testing and contact tracing important to ensuring New Mexico workers can return to their jobs and kids can get back in the classroom. I\u2019m proud to work with Congressman Rush on the TRACE Act so we can sustain health centers and training programs throughout the state,\u201d said Congresswoman Deb Haaland.<\/p>\n<p>Through the TRACE Act Community Health Centers, School Based Health Centers, academic medical centers, non-profits, and other entities who would hire and train individuals to operate mobile testing units, as well as outreach in hot spots and medically underserved areas would be eligible\u00a0for\u00a0grant funding.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The COVID-19 Testing, Reaching, And Contacting Everyone (TRACE) Act would establish a grant program to allow stakeholders to fully mobilize testing and contact tracing efforts.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":311,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[18,58,182,119,748,77],"class_list":["post-9797","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-institutions","tag-116th","tag-cdc","tag-deb-haaland","tag-democrats","tag-h-r-6666","tag-house"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/indianz.com\/covid19\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/EQf_-3qW4AY5GyK.jpg-orig.jpeg","amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/indianz.com\/covid19\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9797","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/indianz.com\/covid19\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/indianz.com\/covid19\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/indianz.com\/covid19\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/indianz.com\/covid19\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9797"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/indianz.com\/covid19\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9797\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9804,"href":"https:\/\/indianz.com\/covid19\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9797\/revisions\/9804"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/indianz.com\/covid19\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/311"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/indianz.com\/covid19\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9797"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/indianz.com\/covid19\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9797"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/indianz.com\/covid19\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9797"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}