Despite warnings, federal officials cut millions of dollars in funding to state and local health agencies, reducing their ability to deal with a crisis like the coronavirus outbreak.
In California, the annual allocations from those programs to the state and all but one of its 58 counties dropped from $81 million in 2010 to $65 million last year.
Adriane Casalotti, chief of government and public affairs for the National Assn. of County and City Health Officials, said the Trump administration in recent years recommended additional cuts but was rebuffed by Congress, though the funding remains far short of what it was a decade ago. She said local and state health departments across the country have lost nearly a quarter of their workforce since 2008.Dr.
There, a top California Department of Public Health official told lawmakers that local health budgets had been slashed by 30% to 40% in the previous few years. “This to me is a violation of our responsibilities as a government to the people,” Jackson told health officials at the hearing. Gov. Gavin Newsom responded to concerns by allocating $40 million last year to assist county public health agencies in fighting infectious disease, which local officials said was a good start.In 2011, the state eliminated the $1.7-million budget for its Mobile Field Hospital Program. Two mobile shelters have been kept in storage, and a third was divided and parceled out to local emergency agencies.
“We are reassured that resources are not the issue here,” state Public Health Officer Dr. Sonia Angell said last week.to help California and its counties deploy mobile hospitals and procure more protective equipment, ventilators, tents, cots and sheltering supplies.Dr. Jonathan Fielding, who led the L.A. County Department of Public Health from 1998 to 2014, said there was a significant nationwide reduction in staff and resources at health departments during his tenure.
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