Dr. Birx, former White House coronavirus response coordinator under President Trump, believes that certain measures like mask mandates, indoor dining restrictions and increased testing could have saved thousands of lives in the first wave of the pandemic.
Dr. Deborah Birx, former White House coronavirus response coordinator under President Donald Trump, told Congress that the Trump administration and other political officials were “distracted” by the 2020 election when dealing with the pandemic.
Birx was then asked directly if she believed the 2020 election kept people in the White House from the working on curtailing the pandemic.White House as previously,” Birx responded. During the lead-up to the 2020 presidential election, then-president Trump criticized then-Democratic nominee Joe Biden’s proposal for a national mask mandate, and referred to Biden’s call for increased social-distancing measures and enforced lockdowns as “unscientific” and “regressive.” In the latter stages of his presidency, Trump urged Americans to wear masks, but warned that “we’ll defeat the virus but not by hiding in our basements.
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