Deborah Birx: “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 lost hundreds of thousands of American lives because of the flaws in the response.

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

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.