Residents in portions of Healdsburg are advised to boil tap water for drinking purposes or to use bottled water due to a water-main break at a construction site earlier in the day.
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As the governor and lawmakers wrangle over the budget, local public health departments are underfunded and overwhelmed. Outdated equipment and insufficient staff hamper handling of everything from asthma to syphilis.
County health agencies fighting disease also have to fight for state funds
Even before COVID-19, there was rarely enough money for California’s city and county public health departments to do what was needed to protect people’s health. Author: Barbara Feder Ostrov (CalMatters), Ana Ibarra (CalMatters) Published: 1:56 PM PDT June 11, 2021 Updated: 1:56 PM PDT June 11, 2021
SACRAMENTO, Calif.
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But if the pandemic had begun a year from now, this lab might not have even existed.
In 2019, Rees’ superiors asked her to begin analyzing whether the lab in Santa Rosa should be shut down to save money. As the first COVID-19 cases appeared in California, that review was halted.