After facing a workforce shortage for months, Iowa awarded an emergency $2.3 million COVID-19 contact-tracing contract to a company that has worked for the campaigns of President Donald Trump and Gov. Kim Reynolds and is owned by a Republican insider.The Iowa Department of Public Health selected Iowa City-based MCI out of 14 applicants, saying it submitted the best proposal and that political considerations did not play a role in the deal.The company is expected to supply 200 contact tracers to supplement the hundreds of public health workers who have failed to keep up with Iowa’s fast-growing virus caseload.

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