Stanford medicine professor slams Gavin Newsom for keeping kids out of school for COVID

A professor of medicine at Stanford University has slammed California Governor Gavin Newsom for his COVID-19 policies – which kept his kids out of school for more than a year.

Dr. Jay Bhattacharya took to Twitter Sunday to criticize the Democrat lawmaker – whose state saw some of the strictest lockdowns in the country. 

‘Gov. @GavinNewsom kept my kids out of their public schools for nearly a year and a half with no good scientific or epidemiological justification. His record on education is the worst in the country,’ the professor tweeted. 

Bhattacharya was responding to a tweet from the Governor’s wife, Jennifer Siebel Newsom, who shared photos of herself and her husband visiting two public schools. 

She wrote in the tweet: ‘By focusing on the whole child, these schools build on CA’s commitment to giving ALL children the best start in life.’

A professor of medicine at Stanford University is slamming California Governor Gavin Newsom for his COVID-19 policies which he says kept his kids out of schools for more than a year

Dr. Jay Bhattacharya took to Twitter Sunday to criticize the Democrat lawmaker whose state saw some of the strictest lockdowns in the country

Bhattacharya was responding to a tweet from Newsom’s wife, Jennifer Siebel Newsom, who shared photos of herself and her husband at two public schools

Her words received heavy backlash from Dr. Bhattacharya, who is the director of Stanford’s Center for Demography and Economics of Health and Aging. 

Others on Twitter agreed with him, calling out the liberal politician and his wife for what they say is hypocrisy. 

‘He transformed education into an abject catastrophe. Except for his own kids who went to in person private school in 2020,’ responded one person. 

‘The nerve of @JenSiebelNewsom posting something like this,’ the Twitter user continued. 

Responses to the tweet sent out by the ‘First Partner’ were limited only to people mentioned in the tweet. Some still called out Siebel Newsom by quoting her post. 

‘Narrator in hushed voice: they send their kids to private school,’ one person said. 

According to Politico, Newsom and his wife send their children to a private school in Sacramento County. In fall 2020, Newsom confirmed he and his wife were sending their kids back into the classroom just months after the COVID-19 pandemic began.

‘Not pictured: her kids who don’t go to public school. So not ALL children,’ another person said in a quote tweet. 

‘By focusing on the whole child, these schools build on CA’s commitment to giving ALL children the best start in life,’ Jennifer Siebel Newsom said in a tweet

Some children in California schools were required to wear masks in the classroom through March of 2022, two years after the COVID-19 pandemic began

Twitter users were quick to call out the ‘First Partner’ of California for ‘hypocrisy’ 

Masked students sit in their classroom on the first day of school at Enrique S. Camarena Elementary School, Wednesday, July 21, 2021, in Chula Vista, California

Newsom and other liberal lawmakers in California have faced heavy criticism over their strict lockdowns and COVID-19 policies, which remained in place months after other states had started to ease up.

Some children in California schools were required to wear masks in the classroom through March of 2022, two years after the COVID-19 pandemic began. 

As of February 21, California’s state of emergency first put in place in March 2020 has yet to formally expire. 

Gov. Newsom announced in October the order would fall off on February 28, three years after it had been implemented.  

‘The State of Emergency was an effective and necessary tool that we utilized to protect our state, and we wouldn’t have gotten to this point without it,’ Newsom said at the time. 

‘With the operational preparedness that we’ve built up and the measures that we’ll continue to employ moving forward, California is ready to phase out this tool,’ he continued.