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Health officials are quitting or getting fired amid outbreak
AP ^ | 08 10 2020 | MICHELLE R. SMITH and LAUREN WEBER

Posted on 08/10/2020 5:37:59 PM PDT by yesthatjallen

Vilified, threatened with violence and in some cases suffering from burnout, dozens of state and local public health leaders around the U.S. have resigned or have been fired amid the coronavirus outbreak, a testament to how politically combustible masks, lockdowns and infection data have become.

One of the latest departures came Sunday, when California’s public health director, Dr. Sonia Angell, was ousted following a technical glitch that caused a delay in reporting hundreds of thousands of virus test results — information used to make decisions about reopening businesses and schools.

Last week, New York City’s health commissioner was replaced after months of friction with the Police Department and City Hall.

A review by the Kaiser Health News service and The Associated Press finds at least 49 state and local public health leaders have resigned, retired or been fired since April across 23 states. The list has grown by more than 20 people since the AP and KHN started keeping track in June.

Dr. Tom Frieden, former director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, called the numbers stunning. He said they reflect burnout, as well as attacks on public health experts and institutions from the highest levels of government, including from President Donald Trump, who has sidelined the CDC during the pandemic.

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TOPICS: News/Current Events; US: California; US: New York
KEYWORDS: alamedacounty; coronavirus; covid19; ericapan; gavinnewsom; healthcare; sandrashewdry; soniaangell
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It must be difficult for some health care workers to deal with endless contradictions in treatment, drugs, and prevention.

It's like 1984 DoubleThink from day to day.

'Masks are ineffective.' 'Everyone needs to wear a mask to stop this pandemic.'

Bars are safe with precautions. Churches are never safe no matter what precautions are taken.

1 posted on 08/10/2020 5:37:59 PM PDT by yesthatjallen
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Two weeks to slow the curve. It’s F’ing August.


2 posted on 08/10/2020 5:40:22 PM PDT by EEGator
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“Peaceful protests” are safe. Trump rallies are not.


3 posted on 08/10/2020 5:40:58 PM PDT by BradyLS (DO NOT FEED THE BEARS!)
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and still....Orange Man Bad!


4 posted on 08/10/2020 5:41:06 PM PDT by IrishPennant (Proud father of my angel son Jon...)
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puke cuomo is blaming trump and the CDC for the 5500 dead elderly in his nursing homes


5 posted on 08/10/2020 5:43:59 PM PDT by ronnie raygun
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To: yesthatjallen

Maybe they just can’t keep up with the Big Lie


6 posted on 08/10/2020 5:44:22 PM PDT by eyeamok
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To: yesthatjallen

It can’t just be that they are incompetent. They must also reference non-verifiable “threats”. Got it!


7 posted on 08/10/2020 5:44:32 PM PDT by Tallguy (Facts be d@mned! The narrative must be protected at all costs!)
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To: IrishPennant

8 posted on 08/10/2020 5:44:42 PM PDT by EEGator
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To: yesthatjallen

The Public Health “Science” regarding CV2 is not.

And that IS a problem.

And it’s largely their fault, with emphasis on the CDC and NIH [Fauxcy, I’m talkin’ ‘bout choo...].


9 posted on 08/10/2020 5:44:59 PM PDT by Paladin2
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To: yesthatjallen

If Biden wins Covid is Over ... except for give-aways to POS Dem cities.


10 posted on 08/10/2020 5:45:09 PM PDT by jcon40 (The other post before yours really nails it for me. IOr keep people from / PC ing in ver and alway)
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You knew it was going to wind up being Trump’s fault. Mountains of fudged data, cheating on diagnoses and cause of death, backtracking and contradicting themselves, discriminating against out of favor people (like churchgoers), discriminating against effective drugs and putting down any opposition...I could go on and on.


11 posted on 08/10/2020 5:47:43 PM PDT by JustaCowgirl (ItÂ’s either Trump or Communism. There are no other choices.)
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To: EEGator

All I see are NPC

We live in a society


12 posted on 08/10/2020 5:49:55 PM PDT by Jim Noble (Think like youÂ’re right, listen like youÂ’re wrong)
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Yup go to walmart or home depot, ok. Church, nope

Theres a whole phucking lot more to this than just a minor coronavirus, thismis not a pandekic compared to actual historical pandemics


13 posted on 08/10/2020 5:54:15 PM PDT by Secret Agent Man (Gone Galt; Not Averse to Going Bronson.)
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You knew it was going to wind up being Trump’s fault.

Well, they did save it for the end, anyway...

14 posted on 08/10/2020 6:24:22 PM PDT by IrishPennant (Proud father of my angel son Jon...)
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President Donald Trump, who has sidelined the CDC during the pandemic.

Wrong they sidelined themselves as they exposed the fact that they were inept from the very beginning on the very function they supposedly exist for.

15 posted on 08/10/2020 6:50:09 PM PDT by Robert DeLong
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Many of these so-called health experts are incompetent boobs on the public dole. What losers...and they likely “retired”. Pathetic .


16 posted on 08/10/2020 8:48:39 PM PDT by hal ogen (First Amendment or Reeducation Camp???)
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Yep....maybe it has more to do with fake numbers and lousy models, MSM.


17 posted on 08/10/2020 8:51:22 PM PDT by Jane Long (Praise God, from whom ALL blessings flow.)
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When Anthony “The Nose” Fauxi goes, let me know. Until then, the state “officials” are minor patsies catering to the whims of the state goober.


18 posted on 08/10/2020 8:55:55 PM PDT by Ratman0823 (Today's news is all about the Leftist's "narrative". If it doesn't fit, the sheeple don't see it.)
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Maybe most of the suburban doctors nationwide will become fed up with the noise from the politicizing factions and take a vacation.


19 posted on 08/11/2020 12:02:13 AM PDT by familyop ( "Welcome to Costco. I love you." - -Costco greeter in the movie, "Idiocracy".)
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This China flu is causing democrat politicians to implement communist Chinese policies.


20 posted on 08/11/2020 12:47:59 AM PDT by robel
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