Birx: Hundreds Of Thousands Of Deaths “Could Have Been Mitigated” After First Surge Of Coronavirus Cases

Axios reports:

Former White House coronavirus coordinator Deborah Birx told CNN that she believes that the U.S. coronavirus deaths that occurred after the first surge of cases “could have been mitigated or decreased substantially.”

“I look at it this way: There were about 100,000 deaths that came from that original surge,” said Birx, who served under the Trump administration. “All of the rest of them, in my mind, could have been mitigated or decreased substantially.”

During her time on the task force, Birx faced criticism for not publicly pushing back against former President Trump when he openly contradicted medical advice on how to prevent the spread of the virus.

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Dr. Deborah Birx, the White House coronavirus response coordinator under former President Trump, said in a CNN documentary clip that she thinks the US could have saved hundreds of thousands of lives lost to Covid-19 following the pandemic’s first surge. https://t.co/cB08LLbIaw pic.twitter.com/cXqvnYWYa7

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