Dr. Clayon Chau, Orange County’s Health Care Agency director, submitted a letter of resignation March 28, and is expected to leave the post June 1, 2023.
“Although I feel sad about leaving, the time is right. It is time for me to take a break,” Chau said March 29 in an emailed statement to The Epoch Times. “I’m leaving the OC Health Care Agency …  with a strong leadership team and in very capable hands. I have no doubt leadership will continue with the vision we’ve set out for the [agency].”
Chau became the agency’s director in May of 2020 but also assumed the role as its public health officer a month later, replacing Dr. Nichole Quick who resigned that same month after her directive for a countywide mask mandate spurred backlash from some local residents, who disclosed her home address during a board meeting and protested outside her residence….