Media Play up Trump Health Policy Tensions, Ignore Resignations in New York, California

While corporate media continues to criticize President Trump and his administration’s handling of COVID-19, they have paid little attention to other significant shifts in COVID-19 policy on a local and state level, including the resignations of health officials over coronavirus management in both New York and California.

Since the beginning of August, corporate media gave Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi and President Trump’s critiques of coronavirus task force leader Deborah Birx lots of air time in the New York Times and other major outlets. . .

Early last week, Dr. Oxiris Barbot stepped down as New York City’s health commissioner, claiming that her and others’ expertise was not valued or used to its full extent by Mayor Bill de Blasio.

“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 that it could have been,” Barbot wrote in her resignation letter. “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.” . . .

On Sunday, the director of the California Department of Public Health resigned from her position over email in the wake of what state officials say was a computer error causing an undercount in coronavirus cases. (Read more from “Media Play up Trump Health Policy Tensions, Ignore Resignations in New York, California” HERE)

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