Dr. Deborah Birx reportedly made the comments during a Wednesday meeting.
“During a task force meeting Wednesday, a heated discussion broke out between Deborah Birx, the physician who oversees the administration’s coronavirus response, and Robert Redfield, the director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Birx and others were frustrated with the CDC’s antiquated system for tracking virus data, which they worried was inflating some statistics — such as mortality rate and case count — by as much as 25 percent, according to four people present for the discussion or later briefed on it. Two senior administration officials said the discussion was not heated,” the newspaper reported.
“There is nothing from the CDC that I can trust,” Birx reportedly said, according to two of the people.
So, four people leaked about that debate.
According to two of the four, there had been a heated debate. According to two of them, there was not.
According to two of the four, Birx said she can't trust anything from the CDC. According to two, she did not.
The debate, which was heated, or not, was about an antiquated data tracking system, which appears to inflate some statistics somewhat. That, of course, is nothing new, and probably minor compared to the asymptomatic carriers going undetected because of the botched testing, which underestimates virus spread by at least an order of magnitude. Anyway, drawing wide-ranging conclusions from an out-of-context remark, that might or might not have been made, during a debate that might or might not have been heated, about the CDC in general an its entirety, or one minor aspect of data tracking, would be entirely ill-advised. Goes without saying, Rightardia is jumping headlong to unwarranted "conclusions". They are funny like that.
