In California, 15,000 kids won’t get vaccinated. In New York state, 68,000 people won’t get HIV tests. Ohio will see a $3.3 million decrease in grants to prevent and treat substance abuse.
These numbers are from data the White House released on predicted cuts from the sequester. You can search by state, program and dollar amount in this Washington Post feature. You can also download a PDF report on each state.
The National Institutes of Health’s Francis Collins predicts job cuts as a result of the $1.6 billion sequester cuts:
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Hundreds of research grants would go unfunded, he said, and some 20,000 highly skilled workers would lose their jobs. He also expects to have to turn away patients from the NIH’s clinical center, which allows people who have exhausted their treatment options to participate in clinical trials.
“I am a bit disheartened about this,” Collins said. “It is a paradoxical thing that we are both at a time of remarkable and almost unprecedented scientific opportunity, and we’re also at a time in the United States of unprecedented threat to the momentum of scientific progress.”
