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Omaha-area health director declines call for mandatory masks

by Associated Press
| July 31, 2020 12:03 PM

OMAHA, Neb. (AP) — Douglas County’s health director said Friday that she won't issue an order requiring people in the county and Omaha to wear masks to help slow the spread of the coronavirus, despite a unanimous vote by the county's health board to do so.

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