This past winter, as Covid cases were beginning to decline, state health officials in New York were expecting a respite after two exhausting years. Almost a year later, they are still waiting.
“What we’re seeing now is that people are exhausted. And many people here in New York and across the country have left public health,” said Ursula Bauer, the deputy commissioner for public health, in an August interview. “Public health has always been about optimizing outcomes with limited resources. But now we’re really seeing that we have tapped out our human resources. And that’s something that will take time to rebuild.
“To have [an emergency] so quickly on the heels of Covid … I think [it] was a bit traumatic for some of the staff who are coming off an exhausting few years,” Santilli said. “They were hoping for a nice quiet summer and they did not get what they were looking for.” For weeks, the Biden administration scrambled to get vaccine vials out the door. The U.S. had contracted with Danish pharmaceutical company Bavarian Nordic for millions of smallpox vaccines — doses that could also be used to treat monkeypox. But the supply was limited.
Morne said her team has worked on building trust with members of the community to address their concerns. St. George was one of the first to find out about the positive case in a person living in Rockland County.
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