Health Department gets $11.5 million in federal pandemic funding
Volunteers administer the COVID vaccine to municipal and school employees from Arlington, Millington and Lakeland during Arlington High School’s vaccination event on March 26. (Mark Weber/The Daily Memphian file)
The funding is to maintain 171 Health Department positions specifically for the pandemic.
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