shocker, I know. Thank God for Biden and his vaccine: https://www.nytimes.com/2021/03/28/world/cnn-birx-fauci-giroir-interviews-trump.html Trump’s former pandemic coordinator suggests restrained response may have cost hundreds of thousands of lives. In interviews broadcast on CNN Sunday night, former President Donald J. Trump’s pandemic officials confirmed in stark and no uncertain terms what was already an open secret in Washington: The administration’s pandemic response was riddled with dysfunction, and the discord, untruths and infighting likely cost many lives. Dr. Deborah L. Birx, Mr. Trump’s coronavirus response coordinator, suggested that hundreds of thousands of Americans may have died needlessly, and Adm. Brett P. Giroir, the testing czar, said the administration lied to the public about the availability of testing. The comments were among a string of bombshells that emerged during a CNN special report that featured the doctors who led the government’s coronavirus response in 2020. Dr. Robert R. Redfield, the former director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, who was also interviewed, accused Mr. Trump’s health secretary, Alex M. Azar, and the secretary’s leadership team, of pressuring him to revise scientific reports. “Now he may deny that, but it’s true,” Dr. Redfield said. Mr. Azar, in a statement, denied it. Dr. Stephen K. Hahn, the former commissioner of the Food and Drug Administration, said his relationship with Mr. Azar grew “strained” after the health secretary revoked the agency’s power to regulate coronavirus tests. “That was a line in the sand for me,” Dr. Hahn said. When Dr. Gupta asked him if Mr. Azar had screamed at him, Dr. Hahn replied: “You should ask him that question.” But it was Dr. Birx, who has been pilloried for praising Mr. Trump as being “so attentive to the scientific literature” and for not publicly correcting the president as he made outlandish claims about unproven therapies, whose disclosures — in one of her first televised interviews since leaving the White House in January — may have been the most compelling. As of Sunday, more than 548,000 Americans have died from infection with the coronavirus. “I look at it this way,” she said. “The first time, we have an excuse. There were about 100,000 deaths that came from that original surge.” “All of the rest of them,” she said, referring to almost 450,000 deaths, “in my mind, could have been mitigated or decreased substantially” had the administration acted more aggressively. She also described a “very uncomfortable, very direct and very difficult” phone call with Mr. Trump after she spoke out about the dangers of the virus last summer. “Everybody in the White House was upset with that interview,” she said. After that, she decided to travel the country to talk to state and local leaders about masks and social distancing and other public health measures that the president didn’t want her to transmit to the American public from the White House podium. Dr. Gupta asked if she was being censored. “Clearly someone was blocking me from doing it,” she said. “My understanding was I could not be national because the president might see it.” Several of the officials, including Dr. Anthony S. Fauci — who unlike the others is a career scientist and is now advising President Biden — placed blame on China for not being open enough with the United States. And several, including Dr. Redfield and Dr. Giroir, said early stumbles with testing — and the attitude within the White House that testing made the president look bad by driving up the number of case reports — were a serious problem in the administration’s response. And the problems with testing went beyond simply Mr. Trump’s obsession with optics. Dr. Giroir said that the administration simply did not have as many tests as top officials claimed at the time. “When we said there were millions of tests — there weren’t, right?,” he said. “There were components of the test available but not the full deal.”
Fuck Dr. Brix... "But it was Dr. Birx, who has been pilloried for praising Mr. Trump as being “so attentive to the scientific literature” and for not publicly correcting the president as he made outlandish claims about unproven therapies, whose disclosures — in one of her first televised interviews since leaving the White House in January — may have been the most compelling." She could have said something more but chose to suck the trump cock instead and keep quiet. You don't get brownie points or praise as a doctor for coming out a year later when the man is not in office and so many others spoke before you. first do no harm.... not first suck political dick. FU Dr. Brix.
Imo, she did what she had to do to stay in the loop and do damage control. A lot of people did the same during the Trump years. Those who spoke out fully and honestly lost their jobs and all practical influence.
But her comments proved she had no influence... no say... no power to make comments... she was a figure head or as Here4Money likes to say... choking on the trump choad just to keep her job but not really being effective at it
I think she, and others like her, were caught between a rock and a hard place. She may not have had much influence, but imagine if she were replaced with a hydroxychloroquine-pumping witch doctor. She was in a no-win position, which is how Trump likes everyone else other than himself to be. She was neither a hero nor a villain, but an unfortunate player caught in a Shakespearean tragedy.