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This bill, the Coronavirus Containment Corps Act, aims to create a nationwide contact tracing strategy and provide funding to state, local, and tribal public health departments and workforce agencies to recruit, train, and deploy contact tracers and related positions. Key provisions include: - Requiring the Secretary of Health and Human Services to develop a strategy to expand COVID-19 contact tracing, including recommendations to augment the capacity of state, tribal, and local health departments. - Providing grants to state and local public health departments, as well as to tribal organizations, to cover costs related to recruiting, hiring, and training contact tracers, case investigators, and social support specialists. - Establishing grants to state and tribal workforce agencies to support the recruitment, placement, and training of individuals for contact tracing and related positions, and to assist with transitioning these workers to permanent employment after the COVID-19 public health emergency. - Directing the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention to regularly report on implementation of the contact tracing strategy, including key performance indicators. - Requiring that contact tracers and related positions be paid at least the prevailing wage under the Service Contract Act. The bill is intended to bolster the nation's capacity for COVID-19 contact tracing and support workers who are hired for these temporary public health roles.

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