Posted on 03/25/2020 5:50:44 AM PDT by Kaslin
Our eyes have become accustomed to the visual clichés of the media. The male news anchor is a man of expertise and experience paired with a promising young woman who is smart but not yet accomplished. He has the gravitas of a person at the pinnacle of his career and she has the sex appeal of a vibrant young woman who has potential and promise, but is not yet proven. He is in his 60s and she is in her early to mid-30s. Around the conference table are men who are immediately recognizable; they are male leaders known for their experience and position. The two or three women are beautiful young aspiring leaders who obviously have the potential of “going somewhere” in their careers, but, alas, they are not yet seasoned by experience; they haven’t yet really earned their place at the table! We’ve all rejoiced at the sight of a few women around the President at the famous Resolute desk in the Oval Office and at the increasing visibility of colorful dresses among the dark suits, but the disparity of gravitas between the women and men has become more and more glaring.
Then, along comes the coordinator of the White House Coronavirus Task Force, Deborah L. Birx. At 63 years-of-age, Dr. Birx has earned significant credentials and she carries herself as a woman of distinction and expertise. She exudes gravitas – effortlessly, simply as part and parcel of what her years of diligence and hard work have shaped her to be.
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In 1985, Ambassador Birx began her career with the Department of Defense (DoD) as a military-trained clinician in immunology, focusing on HIV/AIDS vaccine research. From 1985-1989, she served as an Assistant Chief of the Hospital Immunology Service at Walter Reed Army Medical Center. Through her professionalism and leadership in the field, she progressed to serve as the Director of the U.S. Military HIV Research Program (USMHRP) at the Walter Reed Army Institute of Research from 1996-2005.
https://www.state.gov/biographies/deborah-l-birx-md/
Wikipedia
White House Coronavirus Response Coordinator
Assumed office February 27, 2020
Born April 4, 1956 (age 63), Pennsylvania, U.S.
Children 2
Education Houghton College (BS)
Pennsylvania State University, Hershey (MD)
Military service
Allegiance United States
Branch/service United States Army
Rank Colonel
Deborah Leah Birx (born April 4, 1956) is an American physician and diplomat who serves as the response coordinator for the White House Coronavirus Task Force as of March 2020.[1]
Birx has served as Ambassador-at-Large and United States Global AIDS Coordinator since 2014, responsible for the President’s Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief (PEPFAR) program in 65 countries supporting HIV/AIDS treatment and prevention programs.[2]
Deborah Birx was born in Pennsylvania and is the daughter of Donald Birx, a mathematician and electrical engineer, and Adele Sparks Birx, a nursing instructor.[3][4][5]
She attended Lampeter-Strasburg High School and graduated from Carlisle High School in Pennsylvania in the early 1970s.[6]
She majored in chemistry at Houghton College in 1976 and then earned her medical degree from the Hershey School of Medicine at Pennsylvania State University.[3] In 1980 she began in internal medicine and basic and clinical immunology at the Walter Reed Army Medical Center and the National Institutes of Health.[7]
Career
Birx served as a physician in the United States Army, rising to the rank of colonel[6] before she retired from military service. She started her career with the United States Department of Defense as a clinician in immunology, focusing on HIV/AIDS vaccine research.[7]
She then served in the Department of Allergy and Clinical Immunology at the Walter Reed Army Medical Center from 1985 to 1989, authoring an article on the defective regulation of Epstein–Barr virus infection in patients with HIV/AIDS and related disorders that The New England Journal of Medicine published in 1986 and that Robert R. Redfield of the Walter Reed Army Institute of Research (presently the director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC)) co-authored.[8]
In 1996, she became the Director of the United States Military HIV Research Program at the Walter Reed Army Institute of Research, a role she held until 2005.[7]
From 2005 to 2014, Birx served as the director of CDC’s Division of Global HIV/AIDS (DGHA), which is part of the agency’s Center for Global Health.[9]
Birx was nominated by President Barack Obama as United States Global AIDS Coordinator and confirmed by the Senate; she was sworn in April 4, 2014.[10] She described her role as ambassador to help meet the HIV prevention and treatment targets set by Obama in 2015 to end the AIDS epidemic by 2030.[11]
On February 27, 2020, Vice President Mike Pence named Ambassador Birx as response coordinator for the White House Coronavirus Task Force.[1]
Birx serves as a Member of the Board for Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria as of March 2020.[12]
Selected honors and awards
Two U.S. Meritorious Service Medals[7]
Legion of Merit Award for her research, leadership and management during her tenure at the Department of Defense[7]
Can you site your resources for your statement above?
Fauci has the Dem agenda in his little speeches....and....he is in love with Hillary.
Watch the two video in post #7 above. Explained in detail with documented evidence.
Fauci has been supporting Trump a lot including shutting down the border with China and Europe. Both are working well together under extreme circumstances. It would be really nice if people on this discussion board would stop buying into the Media’s con job of pitting Fauci against Trump.
Happy to discuss after you've digested them.
A woman who has actually accomplished things in her life.
Unlike....oh, I dunno….a certain former Presidential nominee I can think of.
It’s neither feminine nor masculine. It is intellectual gravitas.
Oh I know. What are we gonna have now — the Stars of Corona Virus?? Give me a break.
“She talks like Forrest Gump.”
I think she talks like Christine Blasey Ford at Kavanaugh’s hearings. There’s a lot of that valley-girl “up-talking” with her sentences ending like a question. (There’s a name for this, but I can’t remember it.)
Also, she was caught transferring tens of millions in new funds to Marie Yovanovitch before Yovanovitch was sacked, transferring the new funds in the middle of impeachment.
She calls Fauci her “mentor”.
Still, she seems to be doing a good job representing the technical medical data info for the team. She has the perfect aura in front of the press, subtly saying, “Don’t f*** with me”.
I wonder if these people working so closely with Trump who were, most likely, Trump haters in the past have changed their opinions in any way.
Explained in detail with documented evidence.
I'm beginning to understand the money scam of the international disease "business".
We are truly being "played", and I'm fed up with all the blind sheep out there.
Why so violently negative? Methinks maybe that because she has accomplished much in her young life that you have not, you are blinded by shame and rage.
The article spent too many words on her manner of dress, but if you look into her time dressed in a US Army uniform, it becomes apparent that she is what the administration needs, and she may be the best choice for the job she is performing.
Um, no. They are like 30yr Scientologists...beyond salvation or conversion.
Retired Colonel US Army.
But does she have well-toned arms?
You truly need to watch the two videos at line post #7 to fully understand who these people really are.
After you have watched them, I'll be glad to discuss this with anyone.
she is an excellent independent journalist. She works from original docs. Watch the two vids and get back to me.
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