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Photo: Doug Mills/Getty Images The Biden Administration on Thursday said it planned to invest $7.4 billion in American Rescue Plan funds to hire and train more public health workers with the goal of being better prepared for future pandemics. The funding is intended to expand the country's public health workforce and strengthen the national infrastructure by creating what the administration expects will be "tens of thousands of jobs." These jobs will support vaccinations, testing, contact tracing and community outreach. Spurred largely by the still-ongoing COVID-19 pandemic, the plan calls fo...

(Photo by FGTrade/Getty Images) Through the American Rescue Plan, the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services is making nearly $150 million available to community-based healthcare providers to use for COVID-19 response for underserved communities.  The funds will support approximately 100 Health Center Program Look-Alikes, which are community-based healthcare providers that provide essential primary care services to vulnerable populations but which are not Health Center Program grantees.  The centers will use the funds to advance equitable access to COVID-19 vaccination, testing and t...