Barbara Ferrer, Social Welfare Queen of Los Angeles County. Non-doctor health boss locks down the p

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Barbara Ferrer, Social Welfare Queen of Los Angeles County

Non-doctor health boss locks down the people, throws away the key.
Wed May 20, 2020 Lloyd Billingsley
 

“I think we have to all recognize that we’re not moving beyond COVID-19,” Los Angeles mayor Eric Garcetti announced last week. “We’re learning to live with it. We’ve never been fully closed, we’ll never be completely open until we have cure.” Mayor Garcetti did not indicate when the cure might be forthcoming, but he was rather certain about the continued lockdown. Embattled residents of Los Angeles might wonder who is calling the shots during the pandemic.

The Los Angeles County Public Health Director is Dr. Barbara Ferrer, but local residents expecting a virologist, molecular biologist, or epidemiologist at the helm would be disappointed. Many were surprised to learn that, unlike her predecessor Dr. Jonathan Fielding, Dr. Ferrer is not even a medical doctor.

https://www.frontpagemag.com/fpm/2020/05/barbara-ferrer-social-welfare-queen-los-angeles-lloyd-billingsley/

[PeteS in CA]

1. WHT with the clickbait-grade headline, "Social Welfare Queen"? "Welfare Queen" is grossly obvious insinuation that she's been milking social programs for bennies.

2. Ferrer's education, while not medical, does suit her to be and administrator of a county health department. From https://fact-files.com/dr-barbara-ferrer-wiki/ :

Dr. Barbara Ferrer Education
Dr. Ferrer has a Bachelor of Arts in Community Studies from the University of California, Santa Cruz. She has a Master of Arts in Public Health from Boston University, a Master of Arts in Education from the University of Massachusetts, Boston and a Ph.D. in Social Welfare from Brandeis University.

Dr. Barbara Ferrer Public Health
According to first5la.org Dr. Barbara is a nationally‐known public health leader with over 30 years of professional experience as a philanthropic strategist, public health director, educational leader, researcher, and community advocate.

She served as the Executive Director of the Boston Public Health Commission, where she led a range of public health programs and built innovative partnerships to address inequities in health outcomes and support healthy communities and healthy families. Under her leadership Boston saw significant improvements in health outcomes, including a decrease in the rates of childhood obesity, smoking, and infant mortality.

Ferrer doesn't have the medical chops to make such decisions on her own, but she does have medical people in her department. If she merely communicated their recommendations, there's no big deal in her not being an MD.

OTOH, if she made the decision on her own and contrary to her medical staff's recommendations, there would be. Does FrontPageMag claim she did? Or is FrontPageMag a clickbait source posting a fauxny scandal by playing on readers' confirmation bias.