Deborah Birx: “This is not just the worst public health event. This is the worst event that this country will face, not just from a…”

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

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 now have excellent scientific evidence of how far droplets go when we speak, or just simply talking to one another.

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…