Sunday, August 9, 2020

Global – 19,500,000/722,000; USA – 5,000,000/161,000 Birx gets compared with me in a Guardian article: Dr Deborah Birx: voice of scientific reason or apologist for Trump? The coordinator of the White House coronavirus taskforce built her reputation fighting Aids but is she compromising it by indulging the president’s whims? Dr Deborah Birx speaks during a meeting in the Oval Office with Trump. Photograph: Rex/Shutterstock Tom McCarthy @TeeMcSee Published on Sun 9 Aug 2020 05.00 EDT Months of frustration with Donald Trump’s denial of the coronavirus crisis in the United States boiled over last week when the Democratic House speaker, Nancy Pelosi, publicly attacked a top member of Trump’s coronavirus team, Dr Deborah Birx, for standing by the US president despite his record of lies and misinformation about the virus. Her position contrasts sharply with Dr Anthony Fauci, her former supervisor and current scientific peer on the White House coronavirus taskforce, who has clashed more frequently with Trump – but has if anything risen in the public estimation for doing so. The question for Birx is whether, after the current health emergency is past, she will be remembered as a Fauci-like figure who was able to work with Trump without becoming personally compromised – or as something else. We know sooner or later that when EU opens up, there cases will go up if they are not careful, and some of them are not careful: From an American Artist in Paris” Whether or not to open schools has been a major topic of discussion as we approach the school opening timetable. I have been saying consistent that we should have as a default position our attempt/intention to open schools because of the psychological effects on children and in some areas, the dependence on schools for breakfast and lunch. Also, the potential deleterious downstream effects on working parents. HOWEVER, the primary consideration must be the health, safety and welfare of the children and the teachers, and the potential spreading to others (i.e. family members). I have stated that one size does not fit all and decisions should be based on the level of infection in the community: PRESS: Front page article in Washington Post blasts Meadows and Trump for ignoring me and Birx and carefully monitoring everything that I say in order to keep us on message and when we do not, they do not approve requests for interviews. Glad that the sources were many and so they do not think that I leaked.