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Politics slows flow of US coronavirus funds to local public health
https://www.localmemphis.com/mobile/article/news/health/coronavirus/politics-slows-flow-of-us-coronavirus-funds-to-local-public-health/507-03da5555-5c83-4550-9eae-8058d52d68cdCongress has allocated trillions of dollars to ease the COVID-19 crisis, but many communities with big outbreaks have spent little of that federal money.
Author: MICHELLE R. SMITH (LAUREN WEBER, HANNAH RECHT and LAURA UNGAR, Associated Press and Kaiser Health News)
Published: 10:17 AM CDT August 17, 2020
Updated: 10:19 AM CDT August 17, 2020
As the novel coronavirus began to spread through Minneapolis this spring, Health Commissioner Gretchen Musicant tore up her budget to find funds to combat the crisis. Money for test kits. Money to administer tests. Money to hire contact tracers. And yet even more money for a service that helps tracers communicate with residents in dozens of languages.
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