Birx confirms on FTN that the White House censored her on COVID: "I was not able to do national press."
@margbrennan: "Do you think the administration was suppressing vital information to win the election?"
Birx: "I don’t know what their motivation was." cbsn.ws/39bjbSc
@margbrennan: "Do you think the administration was suppressing vital information to win the election?"
Birx: "I don’t know what their motivation was." cbsn.ws/39bjbSc
Birx says she and her HHS aide were the "only two people who regularly wore a mask in the White House."
She says she knew the US was repeating a mistake from the HIV epidemic: "If you’re only looking for sick people, you miss a lot of what is really happening under the surface."
She says she knew the US was repeating a mistake from the HIV epidemic: "If you’re only looking for sick people, you miss a lot of what is really happening under the surface."
.@margbrennan notes that after a CDC official in late February warned of community spread, Fauci said on TV that "the risk to Americans remains low."
Birx describes her reaction: "I’m in South Africa. We’re yelling at the... television, saying, 'This is going to be a pandemic!'"
Birx describes her reaction: "I’m in South Africa. We’re yelling at the... television, saying, 'This is going to be a pandemic!'"
"I took extensive notes during the entire process. ... I kept extensive notes from every meeting," says Birx. "I knew this would be studied. I knew that the emails, the reports that I wrote, the requests to expand testing ... all of that would eventually come to light."
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