CORRECTION on state-by-state federal spending for COVID diagnoses

[Mark Crispin Miller]

I mistakenly reported that HHS is spending $1.3 TRILLION for such diagnoses

nationwide, when that sum is the entire HHS budget.

In fact, out of its CARES Act Provider Relief Fund, "HHS is distributing ['only'] 

$175 billion to hospitals and healthcare providers on the front lines of the 

coronavirus response." 

https://www.hhs.gov/coronavirus/cares-act-provider-relief-fund/index.html

That is, of course, far less than that $1.3 trillion; but, as Keith Rushworth

notes: "That's somewhat more than the cost of the NHS—free healthcare

for all—in England for a whole year."

MCM