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In years before outbreak, investment in public health fell

by Associated Press
| April 6, 2020 12:03 AM

In the decade before Michigan and its largest city became the latest hot spot for the deadly coronavirus, officials were steadily, and at times dramatically, cutting back on their first line of defense against pandemics and other public health emergencies.

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