“The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) announced plans Friday for a $2.1 billion investment into public health infrastructure for infection prevention across healthcare facilities such as hospitals, nursing homes, dialysis clinics and ambulatory surgery centers.

Bankrolled by the American Rescue Plan, the investments are an effort to stem the spread of emerging infectious diseases like COVID-19 and healthcare-associated infections that have surged over the past year, the agency said.

“This funding will dramatically improve the safety and quality of the healthcare delivered in the United States during the pandemic and in the future,” CDC Director Rochelle Walensky, M.D., said in a statement. “Funding will provide significant resources to our public health departments and healthcare systems and opportunities to develop innovative strategies to protect every segment of the U.S. population, especially those disproportionately affected by the pandemic, at a time that they are hit hard.”

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American Rescue Plan — delivering direct relief to the American people, rescuing the American economy, and starting to beat the virus. https://www.whitehouse.gov/american-rescue-plan/

For a full overview of what’s in the plan, click here.