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Staffing for labs that provide critical testing are a concern, as public health departments lose experienced staffers to exhaustion and partisan politics.
Across California, public health departments are losing experienced staffers to retirement, exhaustion, partisan politics and higher-paying jobs. Even before the pandemic throttled departments, staffing numbers had shrunk with county budgets.
Butte County Public Health faces limited resources amid case spike Butte County Public Health said it doesn't have the staffing to alert everyone who has had a known exposure to coronavirus. Posted: Dec 15, 2020 10:19 PM Updated: Dec 16, 2020 11:47 AM Posted By: Carmela Karcher CHICO, Calif. - Butte County Public Health announced Monday it does not have the staffing to alert everyone who has had a known exposure to coronavirus. What does that mean for the county? Action News Now spoke with a couple of members from Butte County Public Health and they reassured us that there are ways to sti...