Group asserts years of public health cuts contributed to Solano’s, state’s Covid crisis
Dr. Bela Matyas
FAIRFIELD — A coalition of public health associations, labor groups and other county political advocates said a decade of public health funding cuts inhibited the ability of Solano County and the state to respond to the Covid-19 pandemic.
“Covid-19 confirmed the worst fears of public health officials who have been warning that a decade of budget cuts would leave our workforce hollowed out and our infrastructure wiped out just when we needed it most,” Colleen Chawla, president of the California Health Executives Association of California and director of the Alameda County Health Care Services Agency, said in a statement released by California Can’t Wait.