Posted on 12/20/2020 11:26:11 AM PST by Drew68
WASHINGTON (AP) — As COVID-19 cases skyrocketed before the Thanksgiving holiday weekend, Dr. Deborah Birx, coordinator of the White House coronavirus response, warned Americans to “be vigilant” and limit celebrations to “your immediate household.”
For many Americans that guidance has been difficult to abide, including for Birx herself.
The day after Thanksgiving, she traveled to one of her vacation properties on Fenwick Island in Delaware. She was accompanied by three generations of her family from two households. Birx, her husband Paige Reffe, a daughter, son-in-law and two young grandchildren were present.
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has asked Americans not to travel over the holidays and discourages indoor activity involving members of different households. “People who do not currently live in your housing unit, such as college students who are returning home from school for the holidays, should be considered part of different households.”
Even in Birx’s everyday life, there are challenges meeting that standard. She and her husband have a home in Washington. She also owns a home in nearby Potomac, Maryland, where her elderly parents, and her daughter and family live, and where Birx visits intermittently. In addition, the children’s other grandmother, who is 77, also regularly travels to the Potomac house and returns to her 92-year-old husband near Baltimore.
Birx’s own experiences underline the complexity and difficulty of trying to navigate the perils of the pandemic while balancing a job, family and health, especially among essential workers like her.
Yet some of Birx’s peers in public health say she should be held to a higher standard given her prominent role in the government’s response to the pandemic and the current surge in COVID-19 deaths across the country.
Birx has expressed a desire to maintain a significant role on the White House coronavirus task force...
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If you traveled for Thanksgiving, assume you have COVID-19, Dr. Birx says
Well, guess who traveled on Thanksgiving, as we are just today learning about?
Meanwhile, lockdowns, masks, social and economic devastation, suicides, drug OD's continue thanks to this fake scamdemic.
Hypocrite
Just stop asking questions and wear your mask.
Just two weeks to stop the spread...
these people need to fear “the people”
same with the mediass propagandists
Joe Biden is a great choice to fix healthcare.
His wife is a Dr. and his son is a pharmacist.
😏😁😆
Because she knows the whole damn thing is a SCAM..are people dying of this virus, absolutely, but the new case numbers are totally BOGUS she knows it, that is why she had zero fear visiting her family
A "partnered" lesbian?
"Paige" is generally a woman's name.
“His wife is a Dr. and his son is a pharmacist”.
I’m stealing that! ;)
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