Ron Lopez: Funding cuts make Ebola scarier

Funding cuts make Ebola scarier

Here’s a thought on this Ebola thing: should we not have cut public-health trained school nurses from school district budgets? In making fiscal decisions like this, school administrators demonstrate the local version of the national short-sightedness that has gotten us where we’re at now in terms of public health policy. It’s like not buying fire extinguishers. I think about how much good a legion of well-informed, well-trained nurses could be doing right now. The kids go home and teach their parents; it’s the perfect public health education model, yet we don’t do it. The public needs to hold people accountable for the current problems.

This story was originally published October 22, 2014 at 5:01 PM with the headline "Ron Lopez: Funding cuts make Ebola scarier."