Dr. Deborah Birx: Media Has ‘Frightened The American People’ Irresponsibly Presenting Distorted Coronavirus Numbers

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Dr. Deborah Birx: Media Has ‘Frightened The American People’ With Salacious Coronavirus Numbers

By Daily Wire News, DailyWire, March 25, 2020:

Dr. Deborah Birx, who serves as the White House Coronavirus Response Coordinator, said during a press conference on Wednesday that the media has “frightened the American people” with salacious reporting surrounding the coronavirus outbreak.

Birx’s remarks come after leftist talking heads like MSNBC’s Chris Hayes have claimed that the coronavirus could kill 1% of the U.S. population, which is over 3.2 million people.

“We have done some things that are horizontal across the country, but we are collecting data now in a county by county granular way. So, it’s like any epidemic, it’s not equal everywhere,” Birx said. “There are places that are very spared and places where there is more. We have a very vast country with a lot of capacity and a lot of infrastructure.”

“If you do these projections, when you got to those projections that said like in Germany and others that implied that 60% or 50% of the population would get infected, I want to be very clear, the only way that happens is that this virus remains continuously moving through populations in this cycle, in the fall cycle, and another cycle,” Birx continued. “That’s through three cycles with nothing being done.”

“We are dealing with cycle ‘A’ right now, not one that could come in the fall of 2020, and that we’re getting prepared for by the innovations that are being worked on, and not 2021 [cycle],” Birx continued. “We’re really dealing with the here and now while we are planning for the future. And I think the numbers that have been put out there are actually very frightening to people.”

“But I can tell you if you go back and look at Wuhan and Hubei and all of these provinces, when they talk about 60,000 people being infected, even if you said, alright, well there’s asymptomatics and all of that, so you get to 600,000 people out of 80 million,” Birx added. “That is nowhere close to the numbers that you see people putting out there. I think it has frightened the American people.”

CNN refused to air Birx speaking during the press conference and repeatedly cut away when she and Vice President Mike Pence spoke.

TRANSCRIPT:

We have done some things that are horizontal across the country but we are collecting data now in a county by county granular way. So, it’s like any epidemic, it’s not equal everywhere.

There are places that are very spared and places where there is more. We have a very vast country with a lot of capacity and a lot of infrastructure.

Looking specifically about where the virus has been, where is it going, who has freed up resources from where it has been because it didn’t hit Washington State before it hit New York, and looking at those pieces to ensure how we can innovately move equipment around based on the need. And so I know that it has become a place where people are looking numbers rather than what is needed.

If you do these projections, when you got to those projections that said like in Germany and others that implied that 60% or 50% of the population would get infected, I want to be very clear, the only way that happens, is that this virus remains continuously moving through populations in this cycle, in the fall cycle and another cycle. That’s through three cycles with nothing being done.

We are dealing with cycle ‘A’ right now, not one that could come in the Fall of 2020 and that we’re getting prepared for by the innovations that are being worked on, and not 2021 [cycle]. We’re really dealing with the here and now while we are planning for the future. And I think the numbers that have been put out there are actually very frightening to people.

But I can tell you if you go back and look at Wuhan and Hubei and all of these provinces, when they talk about 60,000 people being infected, even if you said, alright well there’s asymptomatics and all of that, so you get to 600,000 people out of 80 million. That is nowhere close to the numbers that you see people putting out there. I think it has frightened the American people.

I think on a model you just run full out, you can get to those numbers if you have 0 controls and you do nothing and we know that every American is doing something and so I think what our job right now is, is to carefully detail on a hospital by hospital, state by state, county by county to outline what the infrastructure needs are and ensure that we are meeting them, both from the stockpile and from the generosity and movement of the American people.

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Patriotic American
Patriotic American
4 years ago

It becomes more and more evident that the elites forcing this bare-bones existence on us, chained like prisoners in a dungeon, want us to have NO life. It becomes clearer and clearer that this is all political.

Patriotic American
Patriotic American
4 years ago

And how many days was it before the media was deemed 100% untrustworthy on this issue?

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Mathew M
Mathew M
4 years ago

Bill Maher, We know the real problem, YOUR JUST ONE OF THEM IF ANY CIVIALIZED PERSON LISTENED TO YOU! if it crashes we’d not expect you or your love affair with the Democrat party to fix it! IT’S TRUMP FOR OR VOTE!
K.M.A….

gfmucci .
gfmucci .
4 years ago

CNN is a lying, misleading, partisan pile of misinformation.

felix1999
felix1999
4 years ago

Her credibility is also at stake. It is not for love of Trump she stated that.

santashandler
santashandler
4 years ago

What the hell did she say??

stephen5970
stephen5970
4 years ago

Every day, non-stop, any time you turn on the news or see a news brief, its the China virus. Networks keep displaying a running death toll on the screen, and how many confirmed cases both in the country and of the world. This is just great for people who are stuck inside for at least two weeks.

When you prove not to be infected, you are still locked in as there is no where to go because of closures or lockdowns. Even if you do want to go out, there is always the risk of being infected so again you stay inside and get bombarded by Wuhan virus news over and over and over again.

There is other news. Some news may even be heartwarming, informative, other problems, natural disasters, and so on, just that it isn’t being shown. 24/7 about this virus is just too much bad news day in and day out,

All the 24 hour news networks are doing this. Enough. A summary every few hours would be palatable. And the more the media keep putting on this circus, the more people become depressed, anxious, or even suicidal.

Why isn’t there more coverage of the regular annual flu which has killed thousands here and hundreds of thousands around the planet? How about news about how isolation has been decreasing those numbers, if at all?

ed
ed
4 years ago

Just like in the news conference the other day, when Trump let that smarmy NBC “reporter” have it, while the woke “journalist” responded with several shrugs and the childlike expression on his face of “Who, me ?? What did I do ??”
Trump is right….MSM really is the enemy of the people….

Drew the Infidel
Drew the Infidel
4 years ago

Q: What is the difference between a lie and a fairy tale?
A: A fairy tale starts with “Once upon a time” while a lie starts off with “This ain’t no sh*t.”

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