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Birx announces that she received a “very nasty” phone call from Trump after warning of the severity of the pandemic in an interview
Of all the doctors that CNN’s chief correspondent Sanjay Gupta interviewed for the network’s upcoming documentary COVID War: The Pandemic Doctors Speak Out, which will air at 9 p.m. on Sunday, Dr. Deborah Birx, the former White House coronavirus response coordinator, “perhaps” the “most introspective,” he said. In one of the clips CNN shared before it aired, Birx believes the majority of coronavirus deaths could have been prevented after the first surge in the US. In another excerpt, discussed by Gupta and Dana Bash in the Sunday edition of State of the Union, Birx tells Gupta that she knew she was “watched” while in the Trump administration and stated that everyone “waiting for me” make a mistake. “She revealed that she had an interview with Bash last summer warning of the severity of the virus, even in seemingly isolated regions of the United States, which particularly angered former President Donald Trump and his team.” I became the president called “Birx said, adding that the conversation was” very uncomfortable, very direct and very difficult to hear. “Gupta then asked Birx if she was” threatened “, to which she only replied by repeating that” it is. ” was a very uncomfortable conversation “.” I knew I was being watched. Everyone inside was waiting for me to take a misstep so they could remove me from the task force, “says Dr. Deborah Birx, the coronavirus response coordinator at the White House under fmr.Pres.Trump, under the pressure she faced. #CNNSOTU pic.twitter.com/5zmR0P3SbN – State of the Union (@CNNSotu) March 28, 2021 More stories from theweek.com5 cartoons about Bidens Immigration pro blemeIs nuclear fusion the answer? The Congresswoman-elected, whose husband died of COVID-19, reluctantly urges Americans to “use my story” and get vaccinated