Is the COVID-19 Death Toll Being Padded?
From the print edition of The New American:
It is not difficult to imagine the scene inside the conference rooms hosting the internal discussions of the White House coronavirus task force. Within those walls the highest stakes are in play as the nation’s public-health authorities, top administration bureaucrats, and politicians — including the president and vice president — debate the issues and policies that are having a direct and dire impact on the lives, fortunes, and freedoms of the American people. There is likely to be dismay and distress. It seems unavoidable that there would be heated arguments.
The vapors of one of those arguments seem to have slipped past the mask of unity worn by the members of the task force since the onset of pandemic in the United States. During one such meeting on May 6, according to the Washington Post, Dr. Deborah Birx — one of the two high-profile leaders of the administration’s response to the virus, along with Dr. Anthony Fauci — got into an argument with Robert Redfield, director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC).
“During a task force meeting … a heated discussion broke out between Deborah Birx, the physician who oversees the administration’s coronavirus response, and Robert Redfield,” the Post reported. “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.”
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