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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Bill Dries covers city and county government and politics. He is a native Memphian and has been a reporter for almost 50 years covering a wide variety of stories from the 1977 death of Elvis Presley and the 1978 police and fire strikes to numerous political campaigns, every county mayor and every Memphis Mayor starting with Wyeth Chandler.
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