Localities in California and Colorado are contracting with private companies to create their own health departments, spurred by a disregard for regional COVID safety mandates.
For some counties and cities that share a public health agency with other local governments, differences over mask mandates, business restrictions, and other covid preventive measures have strained those partnerships.
Localities in California and Colorado are contracting with private companies to create their own health departments, spurred by a disregard for regional COVID safety mandates.