Officials in a Maryland county say they’re investigating the circumstances surrounding the coronavirus death of a public health worker whose relatives say she was infected on the job. The probe of Chantee Mack’s death follows a story by KHNews and AP.
County Executive Angela Alsobrooks and Health Officer Dr. Ernest Carter discussed the need for a probe at a coronavirus news conference on July 30.
She said the county would “spare no time or expense” finding out what led to Mack’s illness and death and “if there are things we should adjust, we absolutely will do it.” An internal union document obtained by KHN detailed a conference call by department managers in which Diane Young, an associate director, said all family health services workers were essential. Only those 65 or older, those with an “altered” immune system or those with small children would be eligible to work from home, and decisions would be made case by case.
Mack’s younger brother Roland Mack wrote an email to Alsobrooks’ office with the subject line “The health department killed my sister,” saying there are “better preventative measures that could have been taken.”“They failed us — the employees,” Wallace said.
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