California’s public health chief resigned late Sunday, days after officials revealed a backlog of hundreds of thousands of coronavirus records that Gov. Newsom said were never reported to his administration.
Ghaly attributed the problem to a computer server outage late last month and a failure to renew a certificate for Quest Diagnostics, a commercial lab that tests for coronavirus. He said that Newsom had a ordered a full investigation into the incident.
Newsom said he was confident those cases wouldn’t alter the virus’ downward trajectory statewide. Hospitalizations were down 19 percent over a two-week period, while intensive care unit admissions were down five percent, he said.Angell’s resignation comes amid resignations and terminations of public health officials across the United States. Afound that 49 officials in 23 states have been fired or quit since April.
Lori Tremmel Freeman, CEO of the National Association of County and City Health Officials, told the AP that state and city officials could scarcely “afford to hit the pause button and say, ‘We’re going to change the leadership around here and we’ll get back to you after we hire somebody.’”
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