Posted on 03/31/2020 7:40:19 PM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum
Dr. Deborah Birx on Tuesday said that medical experts failed to understand the seriousness of the coronavirus because of incomplete data coming out of China.
“I think the medical community interpreted the Chinese data as that this was serious but smaller than anyone expected,” she said. “Because I think probably we were missing a significant amount of the data.”
Birx spoke about the experts’ relationship with the data during a White House press briefing on Tuesday evening.
She acknowledged frankly that when she saw early data from China reporting only 50,000 cases of the virus among the 20 million people in Wuhan, China, and the 80 million in Hubei province, she felt that the threat was similar to that of SARS, which had 8,098 cases globally and 774 deaths.
The devastation hitting countries like Italy and Spain and South Korea gave the experts much more complete data, helping them draw models that were far more alarming.
“Let’s see if we can do much better than that,” President Donald Trump said during the briefing, pointing to the models predicting 100,000 to 240,000 deaths in the United States.
Trump noted that the virus was also more contagious than expected.
“I think the one thing that nobody really knew about this virus was how contagious it was,” he said. “It’s so incredibly contagious, and nobody knew that.”
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Between Xi Jinping’s lies and obfuscation, it’s clear where the buck stops.
Thank you, Chinese Liars. We need not buy ANYTHING from them.
“...failed to understand the seriousness of the coronavirus because of incomplete data coming out of China.”
where was our Deep state Intelligence Community??? oh yeah, too busy getting Trump. FAIL.
China needs to be crushed. They do not belong within the community of nations.
That explains the long, drawn out conversation about face covering. Fauci went on so long as to be unbearable. I wanted it hear the President
COMPLETELY correct.
100%
“Incomplete.” That is NOT what my parents called it when I lied my a$$ off.
Some “experts”.
China Lies! Any fool knows that.
If the ChiComs had been honest, we could’ve shut down in January and February, first quarter, and might’ve been back to work by now.
If my Aunt had balls.....
Is she telling us the US government believed the Chinese numbers in January, when none of us who actually bothered looking at the news from China did?
Why were they naive enough to believe that the Chinese data were complete and accurate?
Deep State might very well have known.
And stayed quiet.
Everyone was skeptical of the data the CCP was putting out, but underestimated just how badly distorted those data were.
So bad, in fact, it can no longer be laid only to the legendary incompetence of any Communist regime. Now we know for certain that the CCP was deliberately distorting data for their own purposes.
We have to give serious consideration to the possibility that at some point the CCP decided it was in their interest for the rest of the world to be infected. And now there’s a US carrier group sidelined on Guam.
Watch for more CCP shenanigans in the South China Sea, for starters.
And our CDC was more concerned with fighting Climate Change than preparing for a Pandemic.
The fact remains that the ChiComs need to pay.
And if our pols won’t see to it, then we have to do it ourselves.
No more buying anything made in China.
The Day of Reckoning for the CDC is coming.
When this over, they need to be blown up.
Is she the one behind the scarf idea?
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