Op-Ed: Mike Pence was a public health disaster in Indiana. Now he's in charge of COVID-19 (via latimesopinion)
. When these conditions are coupled with cuts to public health measures, needless HIV outbreaks occur among vulnerable people.
Which brings us to the real reason Pence was so bad for HIV in Indiana — and will be for coronavirus in the U.S. He doesn’t understand the critical role government has to play in ensuring that people have access to healthcare.without considering the consequences of his budget-cutting. His policies reduced access to healthcare and social support for the most vulnerable.and Scott County, using austerity budgets to justify cutting public HIV efforts has proven to be harmful, cruel and inefficient.
Hospitals have complained that testing protocols are too limited, and the administration has been slow to change them. And cuts in funding for the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention haveAlso, there’s our sick healthcare system, which is almost certain to hamper efforts to fight COVID-19. A man in Florida got a coronavirus test after a visit to China and, workers have an economic incentive to keep working, even when they’re ill.
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