A substantial amount of federal money has been provided to states to help with the public health responses to the pandemic. In addition, the state legislature allocated $50M to the ADHS to assist with the response. I thought it would be interesting to provide a breakdown of how it’s been spent so far. It’s from a JLBC report. Last week, the ADHS notified the JLBC how it has spent some of that money. Here’s the dollar line item breakdown:
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$71M for medical supplies and PPE;
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$10M for ventilators;
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$9.2M for COVID-19 testing;
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$8.2M for counties and $1.8M for tribes;
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$8.1M for the St Luke’s surge hospital buildout;
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$5.5M for ADHS overhead, advertising, I.T., and legal services;
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$3.9M to expand childcare options for essential workers;
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$2.2M to the Department of Emergency and Military Affairs;
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$2.1M to operate the Arizona Surge Line;
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$1.5M for serology/antibody testing;
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$986K for lab equipment and supplies for the ADHS Lab; and
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$452K for the Arizona “Testing Blitz”
