Thread by @K8brannen

"There was no team, no full-time team in the White House working on #coronavirus." - Dr. Deborah Birx

She tells @margbrennan that she was able to cobble together a group of volunteers from other agencies. cbsnews.com/video/full-int…

"I went out on the road, because I wasn't censored on the road." -- Birx

Birx is confident that her exhaustive documentation of her experience on the #COVID task force will eventually come to light.

But she doesn't seem to have fully reckoned with whether she should have brought it all to light earlier.

Could she have made a difference if she voiced her disagreements publicly?

Earlier in the interview, Birx talks about how the US is bad or, basically, doesn't do preventative health, leading to all of these co-morbidities that contribute to COVID being so deadly.

In other words, this country is bad at: health.

Birx warns that the National Guard deployment at the Capitol has all the ingredients for a super spreader event.

Brings it up in context of the Sturgis rally in August, which is believed to have caused widespread infection. nytimes.com/2020/11/06/us/…

Birx says that for people over 70 they have a 1/10 chance of dying from COVID.

Trump is over 70. Proper measures were not put in place to protect him. But, she says, they weren't put in place for the entire country.

What is so sad watching this interview with @margbrennan is what an effective communicator Birx is and what a missed opportunity (with such a deadly cost) it is that she never spoke this clearly or freely before.