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Pamela Bourgeois hands a flyer for COVID-19 testing to businesses in New Orleans on October 5th, 2020. [Photo: Gerald Herbert/AP/Shutterstock]
By LaToya Cantrell Raj Shah and Saket Soni 4 minute Read
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America enters the new year with great hope for defeating the pandemic, but also in desperate need of extra investment to finish the job.
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Although the new year began as last year ended, amid waves of political discord, a tsunami of COVID-19 cases, and overstretched hospitals, we can finally see the end of the pandemic. Now, policymakers, and healthcare workers, and others are grappling with how to quickly get relief and vaccines to communities and people who need them the most and how to build trust where many people are wary of them.
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