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Fayetteville Municipal Health Board Warns of Looming COVID-19 Variant Surge

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The Fayetteville City Board of Health, one of only a few such boards authorized in the state, is meeting more frequently to address a COVID-19 outbreak in the city driven by the Delta variant. Top of the agenda are how to protect incoming college and public school students, as well as residents, given a majority Conservative state legislature has banned both muncipal emergency ordinances, as well as state executive emergency declarations.

Jacqueline Froelich is an investigative reporter and news producer for Ozarks at Large.