The backlash toward health officials has taken its toll: At least 24 of them in the US have either resigned, retired or been fired from the positions during the Covid-19 pandemic, the National Association of City and County Health Officials says
During a live public briefing on Facebook last month,"someone very casually suggested" the Los Angeles County's public health director should be shot, the director said.
"I didn't immediately see the message, but my husband did, my children did, and so did my colleagues," Dr. Barbara Ferrer said Monday in a statement.Los Angeles County Public Health Director Barbara Ferrer said she has been getting threats since March.It's just one of the many threats of violence public health workers are facing across the nation"on a regular basis" as the Covid-19 pandemic rages on, Ferrer said.
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