I’m not a fan of Dr. Birx. I put her in the same box as little weasel Dr. Fauci. But at the very least, Birx seems to be questioning the officiaL CDC numbers of cases and deaths on COVID-19. In fact, there is nothing that Birx can trust from the CDC. Birx thinks the CDC was inflating COVID-19 statistics by up to 25%. Personally, I think it’s higher than that, but that’s just me.
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Birx, who is the White House coronavirus task force response coordinator, reportedly said that the CDC was inflating COVID-19 statistics by up to 25%.
“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.
“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,” the Post reported.
The 3,000 projected daily COVID-19 deaths number was taken from a report by Justin Lessler, as associate professor of epidemiology at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health. He created the novel coronavirus model but says the report was a “work still in progress.” Lessler wasn’t sure how his research was turned into a slide deck by government officials, or how it first appeared in the New York Times last week.
In a statement, Birx commented on the report: “Contrary to data from Johns Hopkins, which shows daily coronavirus deaths in the U.S. staying steady at 2,000 per day for several weeks. Mortality is slowly declining each day.”