Pandemic and politics drive mass exodus of WA public health leaders

Article focusing on public health officials in Washington state and across the U.S. who faced pushback, threats, harassment and intimidation due to the politicization of the pandemic. Experts called the first year of the COVID-19 outbreak the greatest exodus of public health leaders in history. The article features the experience of Erika Lautenbach, who became Whatcom County Health director March 18, 2020, the day before the county announced its first confirmed COVID-related death.