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BY IAN CAMPBELL

January 31, 2022

As new variants and subvariants of COVID-19 continue to emerge, a federal agency which monitors emerging public health threats around the globe says that it has made changes to address concerns about its surveillance of the initial outbreak of COVID-19. In an email statement to The Hill Times

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