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Billions spent on coronavirus fight, but what happens next?

by Hannah RechtLauren Weber
| April 19, 2021 8:06 AM

Congress has poured tens of billions of dollars into state and local public health departments in response to the coronavirus pandemic, paying for masks, contact tracers and education campaigns to persuade people to get vaccinated.

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