The city has awarded $28 million in two-year contracts to temp agencies to provide 48 licensed lab techs, clinicians and disease investigators.
In its notice for temporary staffing contracts, the city cited potential infectious disease outbreaks including new COVID-19 variants, polio, and ebola.Bill Hammond, senior fellow for health policy at the government watchdog group Empire Center for Public Policy, said that an influx of tens of thousands of individuals unvaccinated for contagious — and deadly — diseases is cause for concern.
An agency spokesman insisted the city is always preparing for future emergencies and that the new contracts were unrelated to the influx of unvaccinated migrants. “They have to justify a procurement by citing recent examples,” he said. “In reality, they can only predict the general resources they will need — e.g., humans, equipment, supplies, but cannot predict exactly what the next major catastrophe will be.”
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