State officials in the U.S. say they still have far too few epidemiologists, a C.D.C. survey finds.

Though the number of epidemiologists in state health departments surged during the pandemic, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention reported on Thursday that states were still far short of the public health workforces that officials said they needed.The report, based on a survey from early 2021 of state epidemiologists from all 50 states and…