NYC health officials threatened to resign over Mayor de Blasio's coronavirus mismanagement: sources

[Dennis Donovan]

Source: NY Daily News

By ANNA SANDERS
NEW YORK DAILY NEWS
MAR 16, 2020 | 2:37 PM

Leadership at the city’s health department threatened to resign over Mayor de Blasio’s mishandling of the coronavirus pandemic, The Daily News learned.

The unrest between the department and City Hall began shortly after New York’s first case of the coronavirus two weeks ago and top health officials threatened to step down as recently as last week, sources said.

At least one deputy commissioner and multiple assistant commissioners in the Health Department warned they would resign over de Blasio’s mismanagement and reluctance to take the advice of doctors in his own administration, according to an agency source.

The threat came while health officials tried to push de Blasio into taking a bolder approach to stop the spread of the potentially deadly virus, including implementing stricter “social distancing” measures, sources said.

Read more: https://www.nydailynews.com/coronavirus/ny-coronavirus-de-blasio-health-officials-resign-mismanagement-20200316-qboposyibfhdjntdz7eeq4badu-story.html

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Whoa!

[littlemissmartypants]

1. Well, that's interesting. nt

[Mike 03]

2. Not surprised. I wish CNN would stop having de Blasio on as some kind of

authority, or at least keep him in his lane and shut him up when he starts to talk about virology and epidemiology.

[Dennis Donovan]

3. Yeah, he's screwing the pooch on this.

...but nothing like Trump is. Not even close.

[RhodeIslandOne]

4. The guy sucks

There seems to be bipartisan agreement that he's been a massive failure. He SHOULD have been way ahead of the curb but that's too hard for this guy.

[oldsoftie]

5. "DeBlasio" & "leadership" go together like "Trump" & "ethical"