NYC Health Commissioner Resigns After ‘Disappointment’ With Coronavirus Response

“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 Dr. Oxiris Barbot, according to a copy of the email obtained by 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.”

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