NICOLE FRITZ: Deborah Birx in a bind over Donald Trump’s coronavirus chaos 🔒
US coronavirus response co-ordinator Deborah Birx gives a briefing at the White House in Washington, DC, the US. Picture: ANDREW HARRER/BLOOMBERG
She didn’t. Instead she said what she had taken from the study, and what she hoped everyone else had taken, was the comorbidities that put individuals at greater risk of severe Covid-19 disease. Included in her non-response to the question was the observation that she hoped millennials might look at the study to see whether their grandparents or parents had such comorbidities and would help protect them.
The reason for scrutiny of Birx’s conduct is that, like Anthony Fauci, we do not imagine her a mere cipher for a Trump-led White House administration: an administration that has proved itself, at best, to be woefully underprepared and inept in the face of this crisis; more plausibly, criminally incompetent and callous.
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