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Dr. Birx: US entering 'different' phase of Coronavirus outbreak
BBC News ^ | 08/03/2020

Posted on 08/03/2020 7:27:14 AM PDT by SeekAndFind

One of President Trump's top medical advisers has warned that the US is entering a new phase in its fight against the coronavirus pandemic.

Deborah Birx told CNN the disease was "extraordinarily widespread" across the country and a greater threat than when the outbreak first began.

She said it was now affecting rural areas as well as big cities.

She said rural communities were not immune and should wear masks and practice social distancing.

The US has recorded more cases and deaths than any other country.

According to a tally by Johns Hopkins University, more than 4.6 million infections and at least 154,834 deaths have been confirmed in America.

Worldwide, nearly 18 million cases and at least 687,072 deaths have been reported.

What did Birx say? "To everybody who lives in a rural area, you are not immune or protected from this virus," said Dr Birx, a leading member of the White House's coronavirus task force.

"This epidemic right now is different and it's more widespread and it's both rural and urban."

She also shared her concerns about people taking holidays in hot spots, citing what she had seen while visiting 14 states during the last three weeks.

"As I travelled around the country, I saw all of America moving," Dr Birx said. "If you have chosen to go on vacation into a hot spot, you really need to come back and protect those with co-morbidities and assume you're infected."

America's outbreak has gained pace over the summer, particularly in southern and western states.

In another development, US House Speaker and leading Democrat Nancy Pelosi attacked Dr Birx, linking her to "disinformation" spread by President Trump.

Dr Birx responded that she always based her decisions on scientific data.

(Excerpt) Read more at bbc.com ...


TOPICS: Culture/Society; Government; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: birx; chinavirusnews; coronavirus; drbirx; outbreak
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1 posted on 08/03/2020 7:27:14 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
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To: SeekAndFind

Herd immunity season.


2 posted on 08/03/2020 7:31:02 AM PDT by bigbob (Trust Trump. Trust the Plan)
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To: SeekAndFind

and the mortality rate continues to decline....


3 posted on 08/03/2020 7:32:32 AM PDT by God luvs America (63.5 million pay no income tax and vote for DemoKrats...)
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To: SeekAndFind

any concern about

1.the origin of the Atrocity,

or
2.the signature of FauXi on the checks funded
by US taxpayers making this Atrocity

or
3. the lack of collection boxes for masks, goggles,
muffs, and gloves now covered with the most deadly
virus in world history, like is done even for needles?

or
4. the ignored murders and jailings of those who made HCQ
and/or spoke out about this domestic Atrocity?


4 posted on 08/03/2020 7:32:51 AM PDT by Diogenesis ("when a crime is unpunished, the world is unbalanced")
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To: SeekAndFind

COWER IN PLACE!


5 posted on 08/03/2020 7:33:45 AM PDT by Uncle Miltie (mohammed was a slaver: Burn the Koran!)
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To: SeekAndFind

does she see the forest through the trees?

yes we have more cases being reported... when 95% of the infected show no signs of contagiousness, then people not known will now show up as a new case.

deaths in the usa ... 11 according to worldometer. 11.

it is over.


6 posted on 08/03/2020 7:35:27 AM PDT by teeman8r (Armageddon won't be pretty, but it's not like it's the end of the world)
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To: SeekAndFind

Scarflady going on to picket around L4 labs with Jorge weapons of mass destruction Bush?


7 posted on 08/03/2020 7:44:06 AM PDT by PGalt (Past Peak Civilization?)
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I see 92 new deaths for the USA on Worldmeter...

However, my state of Alabama says 23 have died since yesterday (https://www.alreporter.com/mapping-coronavirus-in-alabama/), and Worldmeter shows zero deaths in Alabama.

Would be nice to get some real, solid numbers from somewhere.


8 posted on 08/03/2020 7:45:06 AM PDT by Alas Babylon! (The prisons do not fill themselves. Get moving, Barr!)
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To: Diogenesis

BUMP!


9 posted on 08/03/2020 7:45:24 AM PDT by PGalt (Past Peak Civilization?)
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To: Diogenesis

Bump your post!


10 posted on 08/03/2020 7:46:17 AM PDT by Guenevere (Press On!)
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To: SeekAndFind

Keep on shucking and jiving, pointing at boogeymen, until the big $$$ quantum dotted savior vaccine is ready and mandated for all...


11 posted on 08/03/2020 7:46:28 AM PDT by polymuser (It's discouraging to think how many people are shocked by honesty and so few by deceit. Noel Coward)
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To: Diogenesis
any concern about

1.the origin of the Atrocity,

or
2.the signature of FauXi on the checks funded by US taxpayers making this Atrocity

or
3. the lack of collection boxes for masks, goggles, muffs, and gloves now covered with the most deadly virus in world history, like is done even for needles?

or
4. the ignored murders and jailings of those who made HCQ and/or spoke out about this domestic Atrocity?

or
5. how despair over economic devastation and dreams being crushed combined with the boring and monotonous lifestyle that we have been forced into is driving people to drug and alcohol addiction and suicide, killing more than the virus?

12 posted on 08/03/2020 7:47:46 AM PDT by Fiji Hill
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To: Alas Babylon!

it would be nice...

perhaps the numbers are slow to come in...

i will check again... they are going down.

t


13 posted on 08/03/2020 7:49:23 AM PDT by teeman8r (Armageddon won't be pretty, but it's not like it's the end of the world)
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To: Diogenesis

“3. the lack of collection boxes for masks, goggles,
muffs, and gloves now covered with the most deadly
virus in world history, like is done even for needles?”

Huge item, that. Especially for used masks (effectively, they’re air sample collectors used in closed public spaces).


14 posted on 08/03/2020 7:50:09 AM PDT by polymuser (It's discouraging to think how many people are shocked by honesty and so few by deceit. Noel Coward)
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To: SeekAndFind

more numbers being reported... maryland has 870 new cases and 8 deaths... less than 1 %


15 posted on 08/03/2020 7:50:44 AM PDT by teeman8r (Armageddon won't be pretty, but it's not like it's the end of the world)
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To: SeekAndFind

The only sense in which it is “extraordinarily widespread” is that it has spread extraordinarily through ethnic communities: native tribals, mexican tribals and african tribals. She should just cut to the chase and give out the demographics. That, for a change, would be helpful intel.

Example. In Navajo Co. AZ, there are 4600 cases. Only 1000 of those cases are non-rez.


16 posted on 08/03/2020 7:53:13 AM PDT by Migraine ( Liberalism is great (until it happens to YOU).)
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To: teeman8r

467 for yesterday. Considering that all these numbers are manipulated that is a very good decrease from previous day’s counts.
But things do hit a lull over the weekend. Today’s numbers will be interesting.


17 posted on 08/03/2020 7:55:55 AM PDT by JerseyDvl ("If you're going through hell, keep going.")
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To: SeekAndFind

Yawn. Anything to encourage voter fraud.


18 posted on 08/03/2020 7:59:38 AM PDT by lastchance (Credo.)
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To: teeman8r

Interesting Trump tweet from an hour ago:

Donald J. Trump
@realDonaldTrump
·
1h
So Crazy Nancy Pelosi said horrible things about Dr. Deborah Birx, going after her because she was too positive on the very good job we are doing on combatting the China Virus, including Vaccines & Therapeutics. In order to counter Nancy, Deborah took the bait & hit us. Pathetic!


19 posted on 08/03/2020 8:08:33 AM PDT by Buckeye McFrog (Patrick Henry would have been an anti-vaxxer)
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To: Diogenesis

Excellent, but I thought you were going to make the statement,

“Any concern... ...has been lost.”

Our government “experts” are a font of non-information.

Did she tell us about these “phases” up-front?

Can she tell us what “phases” are coming next?

I am not one of these idiots who believe that this virus is not real.

There are things we can and should do. Number one on the list is dealing with China, since they are the deliberate cause of this.

Number two is saving ourselves from what has been done, and the SWAMP that is behind it.


20 posted on 08/03/2020 8:08:58 AM PDT by Empire_of_Liberty
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