The Hamilton County Health Department has to look elsewhere for millions of dollars in funding after the federal government cut several of its grants earlier this year. The Health Department – which tracks public health threats and offers low- and no-cost services to people in poverty – learned in March that the federal government was terminating a set of grants it had received. The grants would have supported efforts including vaccinations for children, COVID-19 health disparities, tobac co prevention, department staffing and a shift to a new building. Hamilton County's interim Health Department administrator, Sonia Calvin, said over email that three grants had been cut. To read more, click the link in our bio. Photo 1/ Staff photo by Matt Hamilton / Nurse Benita Benn gives a flu vaccine shot to Chattanooga resident Laura Nu–ez at Orchard Knob Baptist Church on Wednesday, Nov. 9, 2022, at a Hamilton County Health Department event. The department has lost grant money that would ha...