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WBFO Brief Oct. 19, 2021

Published October 19, 2021 at 10:03 AM EDT
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In today’s WBFO Brief , UB’s new vice president in charge of all the medical schools stresses diversity. And hear a school superintendent say that using federal COVID aid to hire staff, is kind of like using scratch-off lottery ticket winnings to pay your rent. Also, the NYC board of health has proclaimed racism as a public health issue, Gov. Kathy Hochul gets some good poll results, and Congressman Higgins is pressing against testing requirements for Canadians to come into the US

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