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Federal virus money slow to trickle to local public health

by Associated Press and Kaiser Health News
| August 17, 2020 12:03 AM

As the novel coronavirus began to spread through Minneapolis this spring, Health Commissioner Gretchen Musicant tore up her budget to find money to combat the crisis. Money for test kits. Money for contact tracers. Money for a service to help communicate with residents in dozens of languages.

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