SAN FRANCISCO: Los Angeles Mayor Eric Garcetti said many deaths could have been prevented if the state focused earlier on vaccinating those in the most disadvantaged neighborhoods, tacit criticism of Gov. Gavin Newsom’s decision to initially focus inoculation efforts by age and profession.
Garcetti also said he’s eager for the day when the state and federal governments take the handcuffs off us completely” and allow local officials to vaccinate those who they feel are most at risk.
From a public health perspective, we should have gone in with surge teams to ZIP codes that were hardest hit (by the coronavirus) and just say, Anybody in this ZIP code gets a vaccine, Garcetti said during an online interview with the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health. And we could of I think really prevented a lot of deaths.
Garcetti and Newsom are fellow Democrats and close friends. And while the mayor didnt name Newsom, his comments ultimately are criticism of the governors approach,…
