California's top public health officer has resigned following data-collection failures that led to an undercount of coronavirus cases as the state was reporting a downward trend in COVID-19 infections, Governor Gavin Newsom said on Monday.
- California’s top public health officer has resigned following data-collection failures that led to an undercount of coronavirus cases as the state was reporting a downward trend in COVID-19 infections, Governor Gavin Newsom said on Monday.
Calling it a “personnel” issue, Newsom declined to say directly whether the departure of Angell less than a year into her tenure was related to computer problems that caused nearly 300,000 COVID-19 test results to go temporarily unprocessed. The dual roles she had filled, as director of the Public Health Department and as the state’s chief public health officer, will now be shared by two immediate successors.
Despite confusion created by the lapse, Newsom said restoring the data in question would not alter the favorable trend seen in California’s coronavirus trajectory in recent weeks.
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