Public health workers fighting virus face growing threats

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Across the nation, public health officials have left their posts due to public backlash and stressful, nonstop working conditions, all while dealing with chronic staffing and funding shortages. AP/KHNews

said he faced retaliation because he opposed a White House directive to allow widespread access to the malaria drug hydroxychloroquine as a COVID-19 treatment.

In Orange County, in late May, nearly 100 people attended a county supervisors meeting, waiting hours to speak against an order requiring face coverings. One person suggested that the order might make it necessary to invoke Second Amendment rights to bear arms, while another read aloud the home address of the order’s author, the county’s chief health officer, Dr. Nichole Quick, as well as the name of her boyfriend.

An official in another California county also has been given a security detail, said Kat DeBurgh, the executive director of the Health Officers Association of California, declining to name the county or official because the threats have not been made public. To Anselmo, the ugly politics and threats are a result of the politicization of the pandemic from the start. So far in Colorado, six top local health officials have retired, resigned or been fired. A handful of state and local health department staff members have left as well, she said.

In addition to the harm to current officers, DeBurgh is worried about the impact these events will have on recruiting people into public health leadership. Some have been angry their businesses could not open and blamed the health department for depriving them of their livelihood. Others were furious with neighbors who were not wearing masks outside. It’s a constant wave of “confusion and angst and anxiety and anger,” she said.The office was tagged with obscene graffiti. The department also received an email calling members of the department “tyrants,” adding “you’re about to start a hot-shooting ... civil war.

 

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KHNews The local offices of the DOH Dept of Health in Massachusetts have ALL TURNED THEIR BACKS ON complaints & NOT TAKING ANY ACTIONS, INCL. Boston DOH OFFICE!! MassGovernor THIS IS ALL YOUR RESPONSIBILITY TO HAVE SOMEONE DESIGNATED OVERSEEING EVERY CITY/TOWN OFFICES! IT'S BS!

KHNews Yeah, nothing to do with governors letting riots and looters run wild and spread the disease. Why would they want to stay on with a government that refuses to do it's job? The private sector pays way better anyways.

KHNews People are waking up to the lies.

KHNews ha, ha...so basically, if you are not gonna listen, screw you....

KHNews And hospital administration and insurance companies have record profits. For-profit health care doesn't inspire competition for the best care. It inspires CEOs to provide the cheapest care by cutting costs. It's evil.

KHNews America’s at a point where we almost don’t deserve interventions by well-meaning, intelligent people. That’s not what this country’s about anymore.

KHNews The show must go on!

KHNews stressful? lmao if these fools did their job it wouldn't be stressful, non stop? again these leaders never work, chronic staffing? again bunch idiots working with just enough staffing. and in America they wait it its fk!! then they put a band aide

KHNews we could be funding this instead of the police

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Public health workers fighting virus face growing threatsPeople frustrated with coronavirus lockdowns and safety restrictions have at times turned public health workers into politicized punching bags, battering them with angry calls and even physical threats. AP KHNews KHNews 0 people in this picture were shot by rubber bullets or tear gas KHNews It is so surreal to watch a President who just 12 weeks ago called COVID19 a Democrat Hoax, ignored the theat, caused untold number of deaths in US, now again ignores the threat, refuses to wear a mask, tells his followers to gather to cheer him! Causing even more deaths! VOTE KHNews Damn that’s terrible. Now do police.
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