Deborah Birx: “All Americans should be immensely proud of PEPFAR's achievements--because they are also their achievements.”

PEPFAR has helped to transform the global landscape of HIV/AIDS and to halt the relentless escalation of new infections.

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…

We have the scientific evidence of how important mask wearing is.

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…