Deborah Birx: “Our behavior -- our behavior -- you and me - is all we have to stem the number of dead.”

We lost hundreds of thousands of American lives because of the flaws in the response.

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.

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…

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