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 forces 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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Yep
Having been here way more than long enough, you're surely aware of the YUGE un-likelihood of that happening ;-)
Same here. Very good friend is an RN at the hospital near us (Waconia, MN). Not one China flu patient so far.
gullible public = willing accomplices
Style and class.
Now she knows how the president feels every day!
I was anti-Fauci for awhile, but now I can see it was the liberal media that was twisting his words and trying to divide, rather than build up and unify. I don’t think that Trump has a problem with Fauci, but to read and listen to the traitorous media talking heads, one would think they despise each other!
3/25 68440 3/26 85356 3/27 103321
Cases only increased 1049 from 3/25-3/26 to 3/26-3/27.
Probably will peak at the end of this week.
She needs to make this clear to Faux-ci and the CDC as well. They’ve played no small part in spreading estimates, models, and predictions made on the basis of data from reading tea leaves.
Can they be sued or prosecuted for inducing a panic?
Fauci has, what Brooklyn calls, “style.”
Dr. Birx does have style.
Cuomo couldn’t lead a Boy Scout troop.
Wouldn’t trust him with that job, either.
DiMaggio, “big dage.”
Rizzuto, “little dage.”
Look it up!
Dr. Deborah Birx - what a star. more power to her.
Yes, and I sent Trump a note a few days ago suggesting he have Dr. Birx be the spokesman in place of deep-state, Dr.Fauci.
Hillary’s worldwide non profit connections and the “hate orange man” media and their hate “christian americans” cadre of treasonists.
Everyone who sowed the panic and fanned the flames - and everyone who jumped the shark and helped keep the panic burning hot...a lot of folks have terminal Stockholm Syndrome and are begging to be taken care of via enslavement.
Who would be served by prosecuting seditionists? The left looks at them as useful idiots.
We keep hearing the medics in NY don’t have sterile gowns. What happened to the laundries? Are they unionized and don’t have to work overtime?
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