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Alaska health department is set to spend more than $3.2 million in federal aid for COVID-19 communications Sean Maguire © Provided by Anchorage KTUU-TV Vaccinations JUNEAU, Alaska (KTUU) - The Alaska Department of Health and Social Services has hired public relations firms to help with COVID-19 communications. Two firms are set to be paid as much as $3.2 million from Alaska’s federal coronavirus relief funding. Blueprint Alaska received a two-month contract for $440,000 in June. Jason Grove, the procurement manager for the state health department, said that contract was approved through “emergency procedures.” The Anchorage-based public relations firm was hired to help “the department’s ongoing efforts to educate Alaskans on mitigating COVID-19, to keep Alaska residents and visitors healthy and safe as our state reopens and eases restrictions.”

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