Barbara Ferrer spent weekends at vaccination sites. She chatted up people in Spanish and English and posed for socially distanced selfies. But the first day Ferrer worked at the Downey site, there weren’t many Latinos or Asian Americans.
The pandemic was spreading fast across Los Angeles County. Barbara Ferrer was trying to stop it, but her moves were turning many against her.
Protesters, screaming through bullhorns and carrying signs echoing conspiracy theories, had begun gathering regularly outside her home in Echo Park. They went without face coverings and confronted her masked neighbors.“You are a traitor to all the people of Los Angeles!” one man shouted from Ferrer’s driveway.
But in a county that at times became the epicenter of the pandemic — with some of the highest death and vaccine disparity rates in the country — Ferrer’s legacy will long be scrutinized with a critical eye. “Public health directors in general are very good data collectors. Tragically, they’ve proven to have major equity blind spots during this pandemic,” said Los Angeles City Councilman Kevin de León, who represents some of L.A.’s hardest-hit areas.
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