Deborah Birx: “More than 130,000 lives could have been saved if the Trump administration had implemented optimal mitigation measures”

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.

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…