Blaz: Now not time to judge my job

Mayor de Blasio said he’s doing his best to respond to coronavirus and New York City should examine his handling of the pandemic once it’s over.

“There’s always going to be questions about…did we get all the information we needed, did we act on it? I did my best, I think all decision makers are doing their best,” de Blasio said on MSNBC Friday. “But this isn’t even the issue now, the issue now is we’re about to go into the hard part, and this is where we really have the opportunity to save lives.”

Hizzoner was asked whether he wished he closed schools, bars and restaurants sooner to stop the spread of coronavirus.

“We’re all trying to make sense of something we’ve never dealt with before every single day,” de Blasio said Friday.

Leadership at the city’s health department threatened to resign over de Blasio’s mishandling of the coronavirus pandemic, The Daily News previously reported.

At least one deputy commissioner and multiple assistant commissioners in the Health Department warned they would resign over de Blasio’s mismanagement and reluctance to take the advice of doctors in his own administration. The threat came as health officials attempted to convince de Blasio to take a bolder approach to stop coronavirus spreading by implementing stricter “social distancing” measures like closing schools.

De Blasio has also given conflicting information to the public during the outbreak – including while manning a 311 call about coronavirus.