California state health director resigns after criticizing anti-vaccine activists on Facebook [View all]
Source: Los Angeles Times
SACRAMENTO A top healthcare official in Gov. Gavin Newsoms administration announced her departure Tuesday, with the timing of her resignation sparking questions about whether it was related to a Facebook post she shared criticizing vaccine bill protesters and calling them flat-earthers.
Jennifer Kent, director of the state Department of Health Care Services, announced in a letter to staff Tuesday that she was resigning from the post, which she has held since 2015. Newsoms office declined to say why Kent stepped down, but her resignation follows a post she made Monday on her private Facebook page about vaccine bill opponents, a screenshot of which was obtained by the Los Angeles Times and others in the Capitol community.
The Capitol is filled with a bunch of flat-earthers today, Kents post said before referencing the large bear statute outside the governors office that is often jokingly referred to as Bacteria Bear because so many statehouse visitors touch it.
My poor sweet Bacteria Bear is dripping with unvaccinated booger-eater germs, Kent wrote before using two hashtags: "#believeinscience and "#vaccinateyourgoddamnkids.
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