Posted on 03/29/2020 5:00:41 PM PDT by rintintin
Gov. Gavin Newsom has called for “targeted testing” of the new coronavirus, arguing a strategic approach will help public health officials find hot spots and determine how and where the pandemic is spreading.
But in the two decades leading up to the COVID-19 outbreak, 11 of California’s public health labs designed for the focused testing Newsom wants closed their doors.
California now relies on 29 county and city public health labs, along with the California State Laboratory in Richmond, to serve 40 million people.
It’s around “the same number we had in 1950,” said Kat DeBurgh, executive director of the Health Officers Association of California, “when the population was a little more than 10 million.”
Read more here: https://www.sacbee.com/news/politics-government/capitol-alert/article241501141.html#storylink=cpy
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Don’t they have private labs?
Lots of shots at Trump in the article. No mention of where all of California’s money is being spent or why New York has been able to test so many more people. Guess that is Trump’s fault also.
A minute of research shows Ms Hannah Wiley is well left of center, yet she had a moment of clarity. Will she and the Editor of this piece be a casualty of the “Coronavirus” and find the unemployment line next week? Stay tuned.
Trump’s fault, right?
Two decades plus of funding for the schooling, housing, healthcare and other assistance programs for illegal aliens had nothing to do with closing those public health labs, right Hannah? I would like to see the yearly expenditures spent on illegal aliens from the mid-nineties on in California. It’ll be a big chunk of change for sure.
More importantly we have a $5.5 million dollar bullet train.
Don’t know where it is but we have some receipts.
Maybe ....... it is California
Ah yes! God ole Crappiefornia. With its crap laden San Francisco Avenues and drug needle infested alleys. Why are they even worried about the Corona Virus? The virus probably could not live in that environment.
That would be 5.5 BILLION!
“That would be 5.5 BILLION!”
Surely you jest. We will be lucky if it is twenty times that.
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