Posted on 09/23/2021 11:53:14 PM PDT by blueplum
Alexandra was working in the public health emergencies unit in a major north-eastern American city when the first wave of the pandemic hit. Although her job was in public health policy research, and not treating Coovid-19 patients on the frontlines of the healthcare system, she recalls the spring of 2020 as a blur of 24-hour shifts.
Beginning last March, Alexandra estimates that she and her colleagues worked the equivalent of three full-time years in 12 months. (Her name has been changed to protect anonymity.)
“There was no overtime, there was no hazard pay,” Alexandra recalls....
...Some public health workers, including Alexandra, cite a lack of cooperation from elected officials as a driving source of widespread overwork and discontent. Others even say they have faced pressure from elected officials to alter their findings to fit a political agenda.
“When they didn’t like how our [data on] vaccination coverage by race/ethnicity was looking, they actually asked me – the least senior member of the health department – to edit the data to artificially inflate BIPOC categories,” alleges Kristine, an epidemiologist at....
(Excerpt) Read more at theguardian.com ...
Interesting, I thought I’d read that Duterte wasn’t allowing any to leave the country.
A severe GI issue is bad enough without having to drive an extra hour. Difficult ordeal.
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