LOS ANGELES - In the battle against COVID-19, some public health officials in the U.S. are being pushed out or choosing to quit their jobs amid a lack of support from elected officials, a gross shortage in critical infrastructure and an onslaught of attacks from the public.Nurses, doctors and other medical officials that make up a patchwork army on the front lines of the fight to stop the spread of the novel coronavirus are in many places under assault, despite being paramount to ending the pandemic.
Ohio’s Dr. Amy Acton, who resigned June 11, had a security detail assigned to her after armed protesters went to her home. Earlier the same week in California, Orange County Chief Health Officer Dr.