The former coordinator of the White House COVID-19, Dra. Deborah Birx, now works in the private sector.
Birx, who was a familiar face at White House coronavirus briefings under former President Donald Trump, now works as a senior medical advisor and scientist for ActivePure Technology in Texas, an air filtration company. inform Reuters.
She has also joined the George W. Bush Institute as a global health fellow and the biopharmaceutical company Innoviva as a board member, she told Reuters.
Birx announced her retirement late last year, after being whipped to reunite with three generations of her own family after Thanksgiving – while warning Americans to avoid groups outside their homes. “nearby homes” for the holidays.
He officially left the federal government this week, he said.
“The Biden administration wanted a clean slate. I fully understand that, “Birx told Reuters in an interview, adding that he regrets his role in responding to the pandemic.
“I try to classify them,” he said of his regrets. “We need to be willing to step back and really analyze where we might have been and why we haven’t been more effective.
“When you have the 100,000 people we lost during the summer and the 300,000 people we lost due to the fall-winter increase, you have to ask yourself and you know that it hasn’t gone as well as it should have.” .
With cables