Deborah Birx

We are failing in rural areas, and I think we all can admit that.

We learned from Governors in Arizona, Texas, New Mexico, Louisiana, Mississippi, Alabama, and Florida about data-driven mitigation to decrease community spread while opening retail and outdoor dining.

More than 130,000 lives could have been saved if the Trump administration had implemented optimal mitigation measures

I knew, unfortunately, that my 40-year government career would come to a terminal event if I went into the Trump White House.

Beginning in 2021, agencies provided muddled and contradicting information, or partial information, that implied we knew something we didn't, which they later had to correct, which accelerated the loss of respect and trust in the Federal…

So, in the flu models, the worst case scenario is between 1.6 million and 2.2 deaths. That`s the projection if you do nothing. So, we`ve never really done all of these things that we`re doing. We`ve put them into a model. We`ve looked at…

Look at it this way. The first time we have an excuse, there were about 100,000 deaths that came from that original surge, all of the rest of them, in my mind could have been mitigated or decreased substantially. If we took the lessons we…

The first time, we have an excuse. There were about 100,000 deaths that came from that original surge. All of the rest of them, in my mind, could have been mitigated or decreased substantially, if we took the lessons we had learned from…

There were about 100,000 deaths that came from that original surge. All of the rest of them, in my mind, could have been mitigated or decreased substantially if we took the lessons we had learned from that moment. That`s what bothers me…

This is not just the worst public health event. This is the worst event that this country will face, not just from a public health side.

I hear community members parroting back those situations, parroting back that masks don't work, parroting back that we should work towards herd immunity, parroting back that gatherings don't result in super-spreading events. And I think…