From your lips to God’s ears. We’ve learned these past four months that the CDC is one of the most inept and corrupt government agencies in DC.
Birx and others feared that the CDC's tracking system was providing inaccurate data on coronavirus deaths and cases, The Washington Post reported.
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Corrupt? No. And if you look at her complete quote in context you would see her main gripe is that CDC is dealing with antiquated technology (probably due in part
to chronic underfunding).
From your lips to God’s ears. We’ve learned these past four months that the CDC is one of the most inept and corrupt government agencies in DC. https://www.businessinsider.com/deborah-birx-cdc-comments-coronavirus-task-force-meeting-2020-5
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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.
“There is nothing from the CDC that I can trust,” Birx said, according to two of the people.
The flare-up came two days after it
was reported that an internal government model, based on data from the CDC and other agencies, projected the daily death count would rise to 3,000 by June 1.
Redfield defended his agency,
but there was general agreement that the CDC is in need of a digital upgrade.
Birx said in a statement: “Mortality is slowly declining each day. To keep with this trend, it is essential that seniors and those with comorbidities shelter in place and that we continue to protect vulnerable communities.”
That assertion is contrary to Johns Hopkins data, which shows U.S. daily deaths hovering close to 2,000 most days for several weeks now, and climbing higher some days last week. Many experts also believe coronavirus deaths are actually being undercounted, with mortality data showing that
U.S. deaths soared in the early weeks of pandemic, far beyond the number attributed to covid-19.
