New York City's health commissioner resigned on Tuesday after months of tension with Mayor Bill de Blasio over the city's response to the coronavirus pandemic and a public clash with the police department.
FILE PHOTO: Commissioner of department of health and mental hygiene Dr. Oxiris Barbot speaks during a news conference for the outbreak of Coronavirus disease at City Hall in the Manhattan borough of New York City, New York, U.S., March 17, 2020. REUTERS/Jeenah Moon
In an email sent to de Blasio that the New York Times obtained, Dr. Oxiris Barbot said she was leaving with “deep disappointment” over the fact that the Health Department’s expertise was not “used to the degree it could have been” as New York City, once the pandemic’s U.S. epicenter, fought to contain the virus that claimed the lives of tens of thousands of its residents.
In the message to her staff announcing her resignation, Barbot also appeared to criticize the city’s handling of the pandemic response. In May, she came under fire after reports quoted her dismissing a police request for surgical face masks to protect officers from the coronavirus during a heated exchange with the chief of the New York City Police Department.
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