Utah received $ 1.25 billion in Cares Act funds to help respond to pandemics.
KUTV reported in October 2020 that $ 440 million had not been spent. The Tribune reported that Utah lawmakers were spending $ 800,000 on a no-bid contract on a drug we knew wouldn’t work. Uintah County spent $ 500,000 in money fighting pandemics on a hose mound.
Now Governor Spencer Cox wants volunteers to help the understaffed and underfunded health departments vaccinate people? Want people to work for free while sitting on hundreds of millions of dollars?
We should pay nurses, medical assistants, and other approved vaccines $ 25 an hour to temporarily staff vaccination centers. We have many financially suffering people who could be paid $ 15 an hour to enter vaccine data. We need the Cares Act money to get to the workers who want the community to be vaccinated quickly. Asking for volunteers is an insult given the taxpayer money that is in the hands of our lawmakers.
The Cares Act money should help bring this pandemic under control. It’s not a slush fund for corrupt lawmakers. We need this money to pay temporary workers to vaccinate our community.
John Nelson
Wellsville
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