Dr. Deborah Birx admits being deceitful when recommending Covid strategies to Trump
She writes that in March 2020, she met with the President, andher plan was to obfuscate her intentions for economic shutdowns, knowing that Trump was wary of anything that would tank the economyhe had worked so hard to build.
"I couldn't do anything that would reveal my true intention," she writes, "to use the travel ban as one brick in the construction of a larger wall of protective measures we needed to enact very soon." Trump's team was more concerned about the impacts and potential for loss of lives to Americans of shutting society down. She blasts the administration for their concerns over the economy, concerns which have played out in real time to the point where the country could be facing devastating impacts, as is the globe.
She writes that "the failure here does not belong to any one institution or person. It's bigger than that, broader than that. It defies easy explanation or reflexive answers. It's easy to lay the blame at the feet of the Trump administration… but it's crucial to understand that the CDC had been fully funded for global health security since 2009." In Birx's view, while Trump does take much of the blame, this was a failure of the CDC and the Department of Health and Human Services.
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