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A festival attendee gets a rapid COVID-19 test during 2021 Made In America at Benjamin Franklin Parkway on September 05, 2021 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. (Lisa Lake/Getty Images for Roc Nation)

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Michael Spatz, L, a volunteer with the Alexandria medical reserve corps, helps AshaLetia Henderson through her first positive-case call as a coronavirus contact tracer, where the Alexandria Health Department set up offices for coronavirus contact tracing and investigations at the Oswald Durant Arts Center in Alexandria, VA, on Wednesday, June 24, 2020. (Jahi Chikwendiu/The Washington Post via Getty Images)

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