Trump COVID Response Chief Birx Says Misinformation Raged In WH

Advisors to former President Donald Trump who advocated for allowing most of the U.S. population to become infected with COVID-19 “destroyed any cohesion in the response” to the pandemic, former COVID-19 response coordinator Deborah Birx told the House Select Subcommittee on the Coronavirus Crisis at a hearing Thursday (June 23). Birx, who previously headed the White House’s international efforts to combat HIV/AIDS, served as the Trump administration’s lead COVID-19 advisor from March 2020 to January 2021. She participated in a...