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Silver Spring, MD, March 27, 2020 — The emergency aid package passed by Congress today makes key investments in public health, according to the Association of Public Health Laboratories (APHL). The measure, designed to bolster US response to the coronavirus (COVID-19), includes a tenfold increase to improve the management of public health […]
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
March 27, 2020
Washington, D.C. – Together, the Association of Public Health Laboratories (APHL), Association of State and Territorial Health Officials (ASTHO), Council of State and Territorial Epidemiologists (CSTE), Healthcare Information & Management Systems Society (HIMSS), National Association of County and City Health Officials (NACCHO), and National Association for Public Health Statistics and […]
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