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Deborah Birx looks back on her time spent as the White House Coronavirus Task Force Coordinator
30 minutes Posted Apr 28, 2022 at 8:24 pm.
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Washington Post health policy reporter Yasmeen Abutaleb speaks with Deborah Birx, MD, a lifelong public health official who previously led the Trump White House coronavirus task force, about her time as the COVID-19 response coordinator, the alarms she raised and the costly mistakes she says were made at all levels of the federal government, as detailed in her new book, “Silent Invasion: The Untold Story of The Trump Administration, COVID-19, and Preventing the Next Pandemic Before It’s Too Late."