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 had learned from that moment. That’s what bothers me every day.
Deborah Birx discusses the preventable nature of COVID-19 deaths and the failure to apply lessons learned from earlier surges.
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