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CDC redefines COVID-19 close contact, adds brief encounters

by Mike Stobbe
| October 21, 2020 12:06 PM

NEW YORK (AP) — U.S. health officials Wednesday redefined what counts as close contact with someone with COVID-19 to include briefer but repeated encounters.

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