'When you get an enormous outbreak like we're having right now...It has less relevance,' Dr. Georges Benjamin of the American Public Health Association said.
The Omicron variant of COVID-19 continues to surge across the United States as new cases have jumped by 185 percent over the past two weeks and the daily caseload stands at over 760,000.has warned that Omicron"will ultimately find just about everybody" as the highly infectious variant continues to spread among both those who have and have not received vaccinations against the coronavirus.
While Becker's Hospital Review writes that it's"unclear the exact amount of funds" that went toward tracing and the U.S. Treasury toldit"isn't something Treasury is tracking," the number stands somewhere in the hundreds of millions. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention doled out $631 million for tracing efforts in April of 2020 and some states spent millions developing apps.
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