President Joe Biden’s multibillion-dollar effort to expand the public health workforce will likely take months to stand up, putting thousands of disease investigators and contact tracers to work as the U.S. turns the corner on Covid-19 infections and deaths.
The federal government will offer states $7.4 billion to recruit and hire public health workers to respond to Covid-19 and prepare for future crises, Biden announced Thursday. Most of that money, $4.4 billion, will allow state and local health departments to hire specialists to do vaccination outreach, virus testing, and contact tracing.
The new workforce also will need to be able ...
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