New York City Health Commissioner resigns over Bill de Blasio’s mishandling of COVID-19

  New York became the epicenter of the COVID-19 outbreak due partly to the congestion in New York City and partly because of the mishandling of the epidemic by of Andrew Cuomo and Bill de Blasio.

  Now we are learning that the New York City Health Commissioner has resigned over a disagreement in the way Bill de Blasio is handling the COVID-19 crisis. Here is more:

New York City’s health commissioner, Dr. Oxiris Barbot, resigned on Tuesday and voiced her “deep disappointment” with Mayor Bill de Blasio’s handling of the pandemic, renewing scrutiny of his leadership during the crisis just as the city faces pressing decisions about how quickly to reopen schools and businesses.

Dr. Barbot’s departure came after escalating tensions between City Hall and top city health department officials, which had begun at the start of the coronavirus outbreak in March, burst into public view and raised concerns that the feuding was undermining crucial public health policies.

  As you can see the tensions began at the start of the crisis and have escalated. This was not a rash decision and it is not over one issue. Here is more:

“I leave my post today with deep disappointment that during the most critical public health crisis in our lifetime, that the health department’s incomparable disease control expertise was not used to the degree it could have been,” Dr. Barbot said in her resignation email sent to Mr. de Blasio, a copy of which was shared with The New York Times.

“Our experts are world renowned for their epidemiology, surveillance and response work. The city would be well served by having them at the strategic center of the response not in the background.”

  Ironically she resigned because the mayor refused to listen to his experts, which is exactly what people on the left, such as Bill de Blasio, have accused the President of. But  you do not need experts when you are being guided by politics and not by science. In his misguided zeal to make the President look bad he has neglected his duty to the people of his city.

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