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US setting up $1.7B national network to track virus variants

by Zeke MillerRicardo Alonso-Zaldivar
| April 16, 2021 9:03 AM

WASHINGTON (AP) — The U.S. is setting up a $1.7 billion national network to identify and track worrisome coronavirus mutations whose spread could trigger another pandemic wave, the Biden administration announced Friday.

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