Labs With No One to Run Them: Why Public Health Workers Are Fleeing the Field
There were days, nights and weekends in the early months of the pandemic when Denise Von Bargen was ...
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There were days, nights and weekends in the early months of the pandemic when Denise Von Bargen was ...
Across California, public health departments are losing experienced staffers to retirement, exhaustion, partisan politics and higher-paying jobs. Even before the coronavirus pandemic throttled departments, staffing numbers had shrunk with county budgets.
Across California, public health departments are losing experienced staffers to exhaustion, partisan politics and jobs that pay more for less work.
Across California, public health departments are losing experienced staffers to exhaustion, partisan politics, and jobs that pay more for less work.
There were days, nights and weekends in the early months of the pandemic when Denise Von Bargen was the only person running covid tests at the public health lab in Ventura County. She once had eight or nine employees to assist her, but, one by one, they had all retired or left for other jobs.