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

On the recordJuly 10, 2023
We lost hundreds of thousands of American lives because of the flaws in the response.
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Deborah Birx

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Birx highlights the failures in the pandemic response leading to significant loss of life.

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