Pavement1999: Barbara Ferrer, LA Public Health and the CDC 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 CDC MMWR 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 New York Times, 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:

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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 CDC MMWR study was then used on a national level by CDC Director 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 CDC MMWR 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Kerpen: “MMWRs are glorified press releases, not peer-reviewed, and published only if consistent with CDC policy.”

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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 @ CDC

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