CDC allocates $10.25B to expand testing

May 15, 2020 - 03:44 PM
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The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention will award $10.25 billion from the Paycheck Protection Program and Health Care Enhancement Act to states, localities and territories by May 23 to expand COVID-19 testing and surveillance activities, the agency announced today.

View the latest funding allocations as well as previous COVID-19 allocations to the jurisdictions here.

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