Former White House Coronavirus Response Coordinator Dr. Deborah Birx said peak deaths from coronavirus in the United States were avoidable, in a CNN interview for a documentary scheduled to air Sunday.
In an excerpt from “Covid War: The Pandemic Doctors Speak Out,” Birx stated that while many deaths in the first wave of the coronavirus pandemic were probably inevitable, the lethality of the next waves could have been particularly reduced if the United States had previously mitigated . . . . previous pause and carried out “greater measures of social estating and closure”.
“I see it that way,” Birx told CNN’s leading medical correspondent, Sanjay Gupta. “The first time, we have an excuse. There were about 100,000 deaths that came here from this wave of origin. Everyone else, in my mind, may have been dimmed or very diminished. “
In March 2020, Birx and the director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, Dr. Anthony Fauci, warned that nearly 240,000 would die of coronavirus if precautions were taken. To date, there are approximately 550,000 COVID-19 deaths in the United States, according to Johns Hopkins University’s Coronavirus Tracker.
In December, Birx announced that she would resign as White House coronavirus coordinator amid the Biden administration’s transition to the government, a resolution that was widely noted in reaction to her tarnished reputation among Democrats, who saw her as an advocate for the Trump administration’s COVID-19 strategy. .
“The malicious incompetence that has resulted in thousands of unnecessary deaths begins from above, with the former president and his facilitators,” Rep. Ted Lieu, a California Democrat, said in a tweet in response to Birx’s recent comments. From his facilitators? Dr. Birx, who feared challenging his rhetoric of insane ideas and mis praised him. “
Birx’s comments are part of a series of comments made by the former White House officer since leaving the Trump administration: many federal public aptitude officials have clashed with former President Donald Trump over the management of the coronavirus pandemic administration and Trump’s public commentary contradicting clinical evidence.
“I can’t tell you how many discussions you had, how we can get the message across knowing what’s going on in the highest grades of the White House,” Birx told ABC News this month. The long-time doctor added that Trump’s comments asking that other people injected him with disinfectant made it “extremely uncomfortable. “
In an interview with CBS News in January, Birx also said that “there were other people who definitely believed that [the coronavirus] was a hoax” in the White House and that Trump’s public comments directly contradicted the rules she and other fitness officials would give. governors and local leaders, about the pandemic.