Deborah Birx said ‘there is nothing from the CDC that I can trust’
- The White House’s coronavirus task force response coordinator, Dr. Deborah Birx, said in a recent meeting that “there is nothing from the CDC that I can trust,” The Washington Post reported on Saturday.
- Birx and others reportedly feared that the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s data-tracking system was inflating coronavirus statistics like death rates and case numbers.
- Other non-CDC sources have found that daily coronavirus deaths in the US remain at roughly 2,000.
- Recent research has also indicated that COVID-19 deaths have been severely undercounted, both in the US and around the world, particularly in the early stages of the pandemic.
- One internal Trump administration model recently projected that coronavirus deaths would reach 3,000 deaths per day by June 1.
Deborah Birx said ‘there is nothing from the CDC that I can trust’