How an L.A. Official Used Ties to Adam Schiff to Silence Covid Critics

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Left: L.A. County Public Health Director Barbara Ferrer at a news conference in Los Angeles, Calif., September 29, 2021. Right: Rep. Adam Schiff (D., Calif.) at a Capitol Hill hearing, June 21, 2022.

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Last summer, 855 days into California’s grueling Covid-19 state of emergency and just weeks shy of the first day of school, Los Angeles County director of public health Barbara Ferrer warned locals that she would impose a countywide mask mandate, beginning July 29.

“With the continued increase in cases, and now as you’re seeing the corresponding increase in hospitalizations . . . we’re really worried,” she told reporters on July 7, 2022.

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Will Swaim is the CEO of the California Policy Center and, with David L. Bahnsen, a co-host of National Review’s Radio Free California podcast.

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