WASHINGTON, April 3 — Dr Deborah Birx, the coordinator of the White House task force on the coronavirus, had a message for Americans yesterday: do better at social distancing. President Donald Trump didn’t like the message. At what has become a daily briefing by the president and his advisers,...
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At what has become a daily briefing by the president and his advisers, Birx, a highly respected expert in global health, has served the role of explainer, walking journalists and the public through the data behind federal recommendations designed to slow the virus’s spread. Birx responded that it was true that some states were flat but that an outbreak in a new city would spoil that.
On Sunday he announced that he had ditched that plan after Birx and Dr Anthony Fauci, director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, convinced him that projections showed more than 2 million people in the United States could die without further stringent measures. Trump made clear he did not want headlines suggesting that not enough was being done, and he went on to explain repeatedly what he believed Birx meant as she remained standing on the stage.
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