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HEALTH CARE BRIEFING: Democrats Eye $2 Billion to Fight Variants


February 4, 2021 6:12 AM
By Alex Ruoff and Brandon Lee
A group of lawmakers are trying to inject the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention with new funds to launch a sweeping virus surveillance program to better track all new variants of Covid-19, an apparatus experts say the U.S. is sorely lacking.
Sen. Tammy Baldwin (D-Wis.) will introduce legislation later today to send the CDC $2 billion to conduct a nationwide sequence-based surveillance program and scale up efforts to track new Covid-19 variants. The money would go to support the CDC’s Advanced Molecular Detection Initiative and boost collaboration among public health groups. Reps. Ami Bera (D-Calif.) and Scott Peters (D-Calif.) will introduce a House companion today. ....

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