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Members of the Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions (HELP) Committee played the blame game for false steps during the pandemic.
At a hearing on Tuesday, HELP committee chair Patty Murray (D-Wash.) said the nation was ill-equipped to respond to the COVID-19 pandemic because of a weak and underfunded public health infrastructure. She called for an end to the pattern of crisis and complacency in public health funding.
But ranking member Richard Burr (R-N.C.) called out the CDC for the country s pandemic response missteps.
Beyond the finger-pointing, the HELP committee heard about caregiver support, next-generation face masks, and interoperability.
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The New Hanover County Health and Human Services building.
In the Cape Fear region, spending for public health has been dropping for close to a decade. Some of the reasons that account for this are the decrease in program offerings and the rise of private and non-profit health services, but some officials would like to see funding boosted.
Expenditures have gone down. Why?
Public health departments provide services like inspections of schools and restaurants, communicable disease prevention, and maternal health.
But over the past decade, county health departments across the state have decreased their spending. It’s a trend consistent with about