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Aug 10, 2020 · Aug. 10, 2020, 3:45 PM PDT. By Tim Stelloh. California’s public health chief resigned late Sunday, days after officials revealed a backlog of hundreds of thousands of coronavirus records that...
- ‘The Need For Change’
- ‘The CDC Alone Can’T Fix This’
- Restoring Confidence
Walensky’s supporters point to her success in overseeing the vaccination of millions of Americans against Covid, the successful effort to control the mpox outbreak of 2022, and her efforts to improve the CDC. But her critics, including many Republicans in Congress, see Walensky as responsible for confusing public health messaging that didn’t help e...
Walensky was appointed in December 2020 by then-President-elect Biden. As the head of Massachusetts General Hospital’s infectious disease division and a professor of medicine at Harvard Medical School, Walenksy was widely respected in public health circles for her work, including decades of HIV research. But her lack of experience navigating a fede...
Both the Covid and mpox crises raised fundamental questions about the way the CDC functions within the federal government. Allegations from lawmakers that the nation’s premier public health agency has been compromised by political pressure did not end with the Trump administration, they just started to come from Republicans. At the same time, publi...
Aug 10, 2020 · By Victoria Colliver. 08/10/2020 02:00 AM EDT. OAKLAND — California Public Health Director Sonia Angell resigned Sunday evening without explanation, an abrupt departure that came amid...
Aug 10, 2020 · The Associated Press. SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — A day after announcing that California’s public health director suddenly resigned, Gov. Gavin Newsom on Monday dodged questions about her...
Aug 10, 2020 · Gavin Newsom refused to disclose the reason for Angell’s departure from her role as the director and state public health officer at the California department of public health, even after ...
Aug 11, 2020 · FILE - In this April 14, 2020 file photo, Dr. Sonia Angell, director of the California Department of Public Health discusses the state's efforts concerning the coronavirus during a news conference ...
Aug 10, 2020 · Dr. Sonia Angell, the director of California’s Department of Public Health and state public health officer, abruptly resigned Sunday shortly after the state discovered a computer glitch that...
