Posted on 03/28/2020 5:06:14 PM PDT by Hojczyk
White House coronavirus task force member Deborah Birx asks media to stop telling Americans that hospitals are running out of beds and ventilators, when it's not the case
Dr. Deborah Birx, a member of the White House coronavirus task force, is pleading with the media to stop frightening people worldwide with incorrect stories about supply shortages and hospitals enforcing universal "Do Not Resuscitate" orders.
"Please, for the reassurance of people across the world ... there is no situation in the United States right now that warrants that kind of discussion right now," Birx said during the task force’s daily White House briefing Thursday.
“To make the implication that when they need a hospital bed, it's not going to be there, or when they need that ventilator, it's not going to be there, we don't have any evidence of that right now. It's our collective job to make sure that doesn't happen," Birx also said.
"There is no model right now – no reality on the ground where we can see that 60% to 70% of Americans are going to get infected in the next eight to 12 weeks. I want to be clear about that."
Birx also attempted Thursday to clarify several other issues including the changing models that doctors and scientists are using to look at the coronavirus.
She cited the change in a predictive model coming out of the United Kingdom that initially predicted they would experience 500,000 deaths, and the United States would suffer 2.2 million deaths.
That model has now shifted, and the U.K. is predicting only 20,000 deaths.
"We are looking at that in great detail to understand that adjustment," Birx said. week, two Stanford doctors put forward the suggestion that the fatality rate of the novel virus is significantly lower than models have shown.
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Fauci is your typical bureaucrat Dago.
A.) No, the MSM, Democrats, judges letting out ICE detainees who try know have the vrys, the CDC, and the WHO are the prbem.
B.) It’s the Chicken Freepers who pesonally attack those who point the problem (A) that are the problem in this regard as they keep attacking those who point out A through continually mischaracterizing those who point out A and trying to jack up the threads they post to combat those in A.
Time to get on board and go after those in A.
“Cuomo actually showed some leadership ability for a while. “
I agree.
He apparently went crazy for a few days until his TDS ramped up again.
Maybe Trump needs to tell him again that he[Cuomo] is the governator and IN CHARGE.
Noticed a couple of women in press corp are copying her hair style. Maybe they will soon mimic other profession attributes.
Knowledgeable and well spoken always works.
“Chicken Freepers”
This is a personal attack.
No one said anything, and dude comes in and drops a personal attack, because he has a personal problem.
my hospital has plenty of beds open...plenty of staff....too much staff since we’re letting RN’s stay home as needed, on call....
Hey Cuomo...are you listening. Loved your statement to the President...”You pick the 26,000 who will die.” referring to number of ventilators.
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When hoarding ventilators.
I noticed that also. I wonder f someone told him to know it off, you are not following the DNC/MSM approved “Drumph bad” memo.
What part of the country are you in?
Yep. Once the left gets what they want, it’s back to seal clubbing.
so, how are people going to react when such vitriol is thrown their way?....
when this is over, we need to have a FR wide conversation about sound discussion and disagreements....
“Beaumont Health and Henry Ford Health System in southeastern Michigan said they were caring for more than 1,000 COVID-19 patients at their 13 hospitals. Operating rooms were being converted into intensive care units and clinics had been turned into rooms for patients needing other medical care.”
https://www.seattlepi.com/news/article/Detroit-police-captain-dies-from-COVID-19-15155897.php
Before it’s over, as in ASAP, look up the profiles of such idiots, and see if they’ve recently joined, and their posting history to see if they’re all-purpose troublemakers, or just scared by all the hype. Trolls must be zotted.
I wish there was a way we could thank her for being a voice of reason while others preach doom and gloom.
China.
I am afraid to say millions have been brainwashed in blaming Trump and that more socialist government is needed. America has been suckered.
Agreed. Plus she recites a lot of stats from her head, not from a written document in front of her. Quite impressive.
The Corporate Media has a job to do, Doctor. Destroy Western civilization.
They can’t pass up an opportunity like this!
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