News Articles on Effort to Ensure that the World Trade Center Health Program is Fully Funded

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Below are URLs to news stories on the effort to have the World Trade Center Health Program fully funded.

January 15, 2025 — Newsday — Stony Brook study: Long COVID risk increases with multiple infections, vaccination status in 9/11 essential workers

People who have had multiple bouts of COVID-19 or had it severely, and those who were unvaccinated when first infected had an increased risk of developing long COVID, according to a new study.

January 14, 2025 — NY Daily News — Produce the WTC documents: Decades of hiding the truth must end

The heroes and victims of 9/11 who are suffering terrible and sometimes lethal medical problems have a right to know what City Hall knew decades ago about the environmental risks from Ground Zero.

January 12, 2025 — NY Daily News — City pushes to dismiss FOIA case over 9/11 Ground Zero toxin studies

The city is trying to quash a lawsuit seeking pivotal data on the toxins that hovered over lower Manhattan following the 9/11 terror attacks, claiming it doesn’t have the important documents.

January 9, 2025 — SILive.com — ‘This is a priority of mine’: Malliotakis to discuss 9/11 health program funding with Trump this weekend

Though the program is authorized to run until 2090, the rate at which those who are contracting illnesses in the wake of the 2001 terror attacks is increasing.

January 7, 2025 — The Broadsheet — Twisting in the Wind: Eleventh-Hour Deal Scuttles Federal Funding for WTC Health Program

The looming budget shortfall means that, if nothing changes, the program will have to begin reducing services and rationing care in approximately 24 months.

January 7, 2025 — Officer.com — N.J. State Police Major Dies from 9/11-Related Cancer

Major Jeffrey A. Burke died on Dec. 31, the New Jersey State Police said in a statement.

January 3, 2025 — MedicalXPress — UK firefighters exposed to toxic smoke at Grenfell Tower fire suffer debilitating health effects, research finds

Research has found that over a quarter of surveyed firefighters who attended the Grenfell Tower fire are now suffering from long-term health disorders.

January 3, 2025 — The Chief-Leader — WTC health care funding left out of budget deal

Earlier this year, advocates warned that, without congressional intervention, the program would have to start making cuts by 2027.

January 1, 2025 — New York Post — Congress must keep the promise America made to the ailing heroes of 9/11

Starting in 2027, responders and survivors who fall ill won’t be able to enroll in the program. Cutbacks in services to those who are being treated, many for cancers, will start soon after that.