New York’s health commissioner resigns over COVID-19 handling

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New York’s Commissioner for Health, Dr Oxiris Barbot, has resigned over alleged under-utilisation of the department’s “incomparable disease control expertise.”

“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.ADVERTISEMENT

This confirms speculation of disagreement between the Department of Health and the city administration over alleged handling of the Coronavirus pandemic.

 

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