Dr. Deborah Birx drew sharp criticism on Thursday for attempting to assure Americans that large portions of the public won't get infected quickly. An epidemiologist who worked on modeling the virus called her characterization 'rosy' and even 'deceptive.'
to her comment that there isn't currently data showing that 20% of population could get infected.
These reactions to Birx come as something of a surprise because Birx isn't just another random bureaucrat at a White House known for staff turnover.She's deeply respected in Washington diplomatic circles and among public health experts. Officials in the White House say Birx was assigned to the task force because of her years of experience as an infectious disease expert, and her work using data to help with the U.S. response to the global AIDS epidemic."She is seen as somebody who is totally driven by wanting to end the [HIV] epidemic as quickly as possible," says Jen Kates, senior vice president and director of Global Health and HIV policy at the Kaiser Family Foundation.
"Why am I confident that we can do that? Because we do that in Sub-Saharan Africa right now for HIV," Birx said."That's how we're stopping the epidemic there. So we've done it. We've done it in resource-limited settings. So I do believe we can transpose that approach here to the United States and be able to have granular data down to a GPS coordinate of a site of a clinic and hospital.
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