9:06 AM: Director of California's health department abruptly resigns
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Source: Washington Post
A top California health official and key adviser on the state’s coronavirus task force abruptly resigned Sunday night. Sonia Angell gave no explanation for why she was stepping down as California’s director of public health, a job she had held since October 2019.
Angell’s exit comes a week after California announced an error with the state electronic lab reporting system caused an undercount in newly reported coronavirus cases. The problems stemmed from separate technical issues, the Los Angeles Times reported: a computer server outage and the expiration of an electronic certificate that enabled a private lab to transfer data to the state system. As a result, as many as 300,000 cases went unprocessed.
Shortly after Angell’s resignation late Sunday, Gov. Gavin Newsom (D) released a statement thanking Angell for her service and praising her for “never losing sight of the importance of health equity.”
Angell is among several high-ranking health-care officials from across the United States to resign during the pandemic: Oxiris Barbot resigned last week as New York City’s health commissioner to protest Democratic Mayor Bill de Blasio’s handling of the crisis, while Cathy Slemp, commissioner of the West Virginia Department of Health and Human Resources, vacated her role at the behest of Gov. Jim Justice (R), who complained about the accuracy of the state’s numbers.
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