Dear Governor Wolf and Secretary Levine,
The Pennsylvania Health Policy Coalition represents the state’s ten county and municipal health departments. The Coalition urges the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania to prioritize increased and sustained funding for local public health contact tracing before reopening regional economic activity.
More than 40 percent of Pennsylvania’s population lives in our jurisdictions, and well over 60 percent of Pennsylvania’s COVID-19 cases are in our jurisdictions. Without increased funding that is stable and flexible, the state’s county and municipal health departments will be unlikely to have the resources required to support a safe response to the COVID-19 pandemic.