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• Expenses of establishing temporary medical facilities and other measures to increase COVID-19 treatment capacity, including related construction costs; • Acquisition of equipment for COVID-19 prevention and treatment, including ventilators, ambulances, and other medical or emergency services equipment; • Improvements to or construction of emergency operations centers and acquisition of emergency response equipment (e.g., emergency response radio systems); • Installation and improvements of ventilation systems; • Costs of establishing public health data systems, including technology infrastructure; • Adaptations to congregate living facilities, including skilled nursing facilities, other long-term care facilities, incarceration settings, homeless shelters, residential foster care facilities, residential behavioral health treatment, and other group living facilities, as well as public facilities and schools (excluding construction of new facilities for the purpose of mitigating spread of COVID-19 in the facility); and • Mitigation measures in small businesses, nonprofits, and impacted industries (e.g., developing outdoor spaces). Other clarifications on COVID-19 mitigation: medical care, supports for vulnerable populations, data systems, carceral settings. Based on public comments and questions received from recipients following the interim final rule, Treasury is making several further clarifications on enumerated eligible uses in this category. Public Comment: Several commenters requested clarification on eligible uses of funds for medical care; Treasury addresses those comments in the section Medical Expenses below. Public Comment: Recipients posed questions on the type and scope of activities eligible as "supports for vulnerable populations to access medical or public health services." 61