Lauren Weber & Anna Maria Barry-Jester, The Associated Press/Kaiser Health News

Lauren Weber & Anna Maria Barry-Jester, The Associated Press/Kaiser Health News
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Two signs on a glass door ask customers to wear a face mask.

Most states have cut back public health powers amid pandemic

Republican legislators in more than half of U.S. states, spurred on by voters angry about lockdowns and mask mandates, are taking away the powers that state and local officials use to protect the public against infectious diseases.