New York City’s health commissioner Dr. Oxiris Barbot handed in her resignation letter to Mayor Bill de Blasio over his handling of the coronavirus pandemic.
“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,” wrote Barbot in her resignation letter.
She added, “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.”
Barbot’s resignation comes in the midst of a confrontation between the mayor and the city’s health officials over his decision to make contact tracing for COVID-19 the responsibility of the public health system instead of that of the Health Department.
Soon after this Fox News’ Greg Gutfeld said that Bill de Blasio “might be the least-liked mayor in the history of the universe.”
Gutfeld, who is a resident of New York told “Outnumbered”, “He is an absentee landlord. He has left the city and he is more interested in championing the symbolic gestures of graffiti or whatnot than actually helping the people that are dying.”
Gutfeld accused Barbot and de Blasio of “throwing each other under the bus” because they both know that the way the coronavirus was handled in New York City was a “disaster.”
“New York’s got to find an alternative to leftism because they’re just going to keep winning elections if you keep giving up,” Gutfeld said. “They have had serious, serious problems and a lot of it is on this guy’s [de Blasio’s] shoulders.”
The city’s department of health reports more than 222,000 cases of coronavirus with over 18,000 deaths.
