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“Everybody in the White House was upset with that interview,” she said.Īfter that, she decided to travel the country to talk to state and local leaders about masks and social distancing and other public health measures that the president didn’t want her to explain to the American public from the White House podium.ĭr. Trump after she spoke out about the dangers of the virus last summer.

In what was one of her first televised interviews since leaving the White House in January, she also described a “very uncomfortable, very direct and very difficult” phone call with Mr. “All of the rest of them,” she said, referring to almost 450,000 deaths, “in my mind, could have been mitigated or decreased substantially” had the administration acted more aggressively. There were about 100,000 deaths that came from that original surge.” Trump as being “so attentive to the scientific literature” and for not publicly correcting the president as he made outlandish claims about unproven therapies, whose disclosures may have been the most compelling.Īs of Sunday, more than 548,000 Americans have died from infection with the coronavirus. Birx, who has been pilloried for praising Mr. Hahn replied: “You should ask him that question.”īut it was Dr. “That was a line in the sand for me,” Dr. Azar had grown “strained” after the health secretary revoked the agency’s power to regulate coronavirus tests. Hahn, the former commissioner of the Food and Drug Administration, said his relationship with Mr. Sanjay Gupta, CNN’s chief medical correspondent. “Now he may deny that, but it’s true,” Dr. Azar III, and the secretary’s leadership team of pressuring him to revise scientific reports. Redfield, the former director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, accused Mr. The comments were among a string of bombshells that emerged during a CNN special report that featured the doctors who led the government’s coronavirus response in 2020.ĭr. Giroir, the testing czar, said the administration had lied to the public about the availability of testing. Trump’s coronavirus response coordinator, suggested that hundreds of thousands of Americans may have died needlessly, and Adm. Trump’s pandemic officials confirmed in stark and no uncertain terms what was already an open secret in Washington: The administration’s pandemic response was riddled with dysfunction, and the discord, untruths and infighting most likely cost many lives.ĭr. In interviews broadcast on CNN Sunday night, former President Donald J. Deborah Birx during a news conference at the White House in April 2020. Trump and former Vice President Mike Pence with Adm.