Birx has a new book out
Trump decided to shut down the country after a friend got COVID and a hospital he knew well became overwhelmed: book
Former White House COVID coordinator Dr. Deborah Birx has a new tell-all book.
In it, she details how Trump initially agreed with her recommendation to shut down most of the US.
He also turned on her afterward and rarely sought her advice, she wrote.
The severity of COVID-19 first struck Donald Trump after an older, wealthy New York real estate developer friend got sick and was fighting for his life in the president's hometown hospital, Dr. Deborah Birx writes in a new memoir.
"Suddenly, this pandemic was not abstract to him, but very real and personal," Birx reports in "Silent Invasion: The Untold Story of the Trump Administration, COVID-19, and Preventing the Next Pandemic Before It's Too Late."
As the global pandemic took off, Trump momentarily wrestled with his own mortality upon learning that Crown Acquisitions founder Stanley Chera was deteriorating rapidly at Elmhurst Hospital in Queens, New York.
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"We will never shut down the country again. Never," he told her a few days into lockdown, in early April 2020.
"His pupils hardened into points of anger," Birx writes of the confrontation, adding, "I felt the blood drain from my face, and I shivered slightly."
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moar…BS
https://www.businessinsider.com/donald-trump-deborah-birx-covid-stanley-chera-elmhurst-hospital-book-2022-4
It reads like a freakin' RRN story...i.e. childishly written