Deborah Birx: “All Americans should be immensely proud of PEPFAR's achievements--because they are also their achievements.”

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…

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.

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…