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Jul 24 • 13 tweets • 7 min read
Barbara Ferrer, @lapublichealth and @CDCgov created a feedback loop of bad science to justify the Covid-19 policies that local and national teachers unions were requesting.

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Barbara Ferrer’s daughter Kaitlin Barnes was hired by LA County Office of Education in late 2020.

Kaitlin almost immediately went to work co-authoring a @CDCMMWR study with 4 of her mom’s high level employees.

The flagrant conflict of interest wasn’t disclosed by anyone.
Of course, Barbara Ferrer denies any involvement with the CDC study written by her employees and her daughter.

The report by Ferrer’s daughter and Ferrer’s employees was titled “COVID-19 Case Rates in Transitional Kindergarten Through Grade 12 Schools and in the Community” has since been cited by more than 40 news publications including @nyt, @Forbes, @PopSci, @Yahoo, and @cnn
Barbara Ferrer’s daughter’s study concludes that:

A multipronged prevention strategy, including masking, physical distancing, testing, and most recently vaccination of children and adolescents aged ≥12 years, will remain critical to reducing transmission.
Barbara Ferrer’s daughter’s conclusion is remarkably similar to….. exactly what the teachers unions such as UTLA were asking for:
This makes sense because we know Barbara Ferrer doesn’t do anything without consulting her sector and labor partners (aka the teachers unions).

Barbara Ferrer’s daughter’s @CDCMMWR study was then used on a national level by @CDCDirector to insist that schools could only open safely with protocols included testing, universal masking, vaccinations, physical distancing, contact tracing, and symptom screening.
Let’s acknowledge that @CDCMMWR is not a peer reviewed medical journal, but rather public policy advocacy.

@kerpen “MMWRs are glorified press releases, not peer-reviewed, and published only if consistent with CDC policy.”

More details here 👇
Beyond the undisclosed conflict of interest, how do we know that Barbara Ferrer and the CDC work together to satisfy teachers unions?

Ferrer has told us countless times that her labor partners come first. Absolutely damning admission 👇

So we know the CDC points at LA County when justifying their policies.

And Ferrer points right back at the CDC…. creating a feedback loop of bad science.

Here are Barbara and Andrea Kim (another of the study’s co-authors) pointing at the CDC.

Draw your own conclusions, but this is clearly a national story that speaks volumes about the quality of science @CDCgov

Thank you @cynrojasla and everyone helping to find this damning information that is out there. Amazing work.
I take no credit for this.

This is all comes from information readily available online and it’s too bad @latimes chose not to cover it. Instead my beautiful wife @truthartbeauty and her amazing friends have had to become citizen journalists.

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More from @Pavement1999

Jul 22
The 5 @LACountyBOS supervisors have to be tired of the embarrassment that Ferrer has created with her scandals.

@HildaSolis was Obama’s Secretary of Labor. She is likely eyeing another big role with Kamala or Newsom as President.

📧 firstdistrict@bos.lacounty.gov
Only the five supervisors can end this nightmare. Over the next week they need to hear nothing but #FireFerrer
@HildaSolis is only 64 and she is about to start her final term as supervisor. You know she wants to go back to the White House in 2024. She doesn’t need any of this Ferrer nonsense.
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Jul 19
As kids were returning to the classroom across the country in August 2021, the CDC used a report co-authored by LA County Health Director Barbara Ferrer’s own daughter to justify school masking, vaccinations and other measures in Los Angeles and beyond.
The report was co-authored by Kaitlin Barnes of the LA County Office of Education and posted to the CDC’s website on September 3rd, 2021.  Barnes had recently been hired by LA County as a Project Management Officer during the pandemic and is the daughter of Dr. Barbara Ferrer.
The mother-daughter relationship was not disclosed in the CDC MMWR report despite specific protocols in place by the CDC requiring transparency when dealing with potential conflicts of interest.
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