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More than a dozen vaccination clinics were canceled in Pima County, Arizona.

So was a media blitz to bring low-income children in Washoe County, Nevada, up to date on their shots.

This story was produced in partnership with KFF Health News.

Planned clinics were also scuttled in Texas, Minnesota, and Washington, among other places.

Immunization efforts across the country were upended after the federal Centers for Disease Control and Prevention abruptly canceled $11.4 billion in COVID-related funds for state and local health departments in late March.

A federal judge temporarily blocked the cutslast week in some states, including Arizona, after a group of state Attorneys General sued. In addition, many of the organizations that receive the funds said they must proceed as though they're gone.

All the disruption is raising public health concerns amid a resurgence of measles, a rise in vaccine hesitancy, and growing distrust of public health agencies.

"I'm particularly concerned about the accessibility of vaccines for vulnerable populations," former U.S. surgeon general Jerome Adams told KFF Health News. Adams served in President Donald Trump's first administration. "Without high vaccination rates, we are setting those populations and communities up for preventable harm."

The Department of Health and Human Services, which houses the CDC, does not comment on ongoing litigation, spokesperson Vianca Rodriguez Feliciano said. But she sent a statement on the original action, saying that HHS made the cuts because the COVID pandemic is over: "HHS will no longer waste billions of taxpayer dollars responding to a non-existent pandemic that Americans moved on from years ago."

But clinics have also used the money to address other preventable diseases such as flu, mpox, and measles. More than 500 cases of measles so far in a Texas outbreak have led to 57 hospitalizations and the deaths of two school-age children.

In Pima County, Arizona, officials learned that one of its vaccination programs would have to end early because the federal government took away its remaining $1 million in grant money. The county had to cancel about 20 vaccine events offering COVID and flu shots that it had already scheduled, said Theresa Cullen, director of the county health department. And it isn't able to plan any more, she said.