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WBFO Brief Aug. 19, 2021

In today's WBFO Brief, The Buffalo school board's meeting on masks and the return to school, a new study shows the sleep pattern of NY students, and the surviving 2 “Buffalo 5” get new trial 40 years later but Erie County District Attorney John Flynn denies earlier railroading. And as we've been doing throughout the pandemic, hear from Dr. Nancy Nielsen MD

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