Thousands of health workers who were hired as COVID-19 raged may lose their jobs as covid relief funding runs out.
, who co-authored the report and heads the de Beaumont Foundation, which advocates for increasing support for the nation’s public health. “How many American deaths is it going to take until we fix this problem?”
In Chicago, CDC Foundation employees made up about as much as a tenth of the city’s public health workforce, said Dr., commissioner of the city’s public health department. Although she got 26 of those 66 employees extended into December, she said it’ll hurt to lose the rest. They’ve contributed to everything from public health nursing to communicating the latest guidance about the pandemic to Chicagoans.
Senior epidemiologist Katie Schenk, who has a doctorate in public health, did covid surveillance for the CDC Foundation at the Illinois and Washington, D.C., health departments. Both contracts ran out, and she was left without a job this summer.
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