[3] Ferrer was born in Puerto Rico and came to the United States when she was 17 in order to attend a college in Ohio, later dropping out after a year.

[6] She also served as the executive director of the Boston Public Health Commission (2007-2014) and the chief strategy officer for the W.K.

[14] She faced criticism for her response, with 233,000 residents testing positive and 5,500 dead by August 2020, with the number of deaths rising up to 24,000 by June 2021.

[16] However several cities in LA County including Beverly Hills announced they would refuse to enforce her new mandate.

In addition, the Alliance of Los Angeles County Parents filed a lawsuit against Ferrer and the L.A. Public Health Department, alleging their decisions had been “arbitrary, capricious and entirely lacking in evidentiary support,” and that the rights of children to the equal protection of the law were being violated.