As COVID-19 circumstances and hospitalizations rise sharply in Missouri, native well being departments are abandoning efforts to cease the unfold of the pandemic illness, saying their palms have been tied by the state’s lawyer common and a current courtroom ruling.
One native company, the Laclede County Well being Division, northeast of Springfield, introduced that it has ceased all COVID-19 associated work, together with case investigations, contact tracing, quarantine orders, and public bulletins of present circumstances and deaths.
“Whereas this can be a large concern for our company, we’ve no different choices however to observe the orders of the Missouri Legal professional Basic at the moment,” the division wrote in a Fb submit on December 9.
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