Birx says he “always” considered leaving Trump’s COVID-19 working group

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Deborah BirxDeborah Birx on Sunday shows preview: All eyes set on Biden administration to fight coronavirus Birx says he considers regularly letting Pence deliver a report of coronavirus work to Biden MORE he said in a new interview that he “always considered” resigning from the White House coronavirus working group President TrumpDonald TrumpNYT: Rep. Perry played a role in Trump’s alleged plan to oust AG Arizona action GOP censors top state Republicans McCain, Flake and Ducey Biden and British Prime Minister discuss NATO and multilateralism during the call he was in charge.

Birx, who had previously served in public health at the George W. Bush and Obama administrations, told CBS’s “Face the Nation” that colleagues often assumed she was signing a political agenda with her role as coordinator. of the White House coronavirus response.

“My colleagues I had known for decades … decades in that experience, because I was in the White House, decided that I had become this political person, even though they knew me forever,” he told l host Margaret Brennan. “I had to ask myself every morning. There’s something I think can make it helpful in responding to this pandemic and it’s something I was asked every night.”

Asked if she considered quitting, Birx replied, “Always. I mean, why would you want to do it every day?”

“I always feel like I could have done more, be more outspoken, maybe be more outspoken in public. I didn’t know all the consequences of all these problems,” Birx said when asked about his biggest mistake in the workgroup.

He also described his continued frustration at the perception that he was unaware of his orientation.

“[W]When it became a point where it got nowhere and it was like before the election, I wrote a very detailed communication plan of what was to happen the day after the election and how it was to be executed. ” , “he said.” And there were many promises that this would happen. “

Birx announced his retirement when President Biden took office last week. Another of the public faces of the public health response to the virus, Anthony FauciAnthony Fauci: Distribution of AstraZeneca vaccine begins in Brazil Biden and British Prime Minister discuss NATO and multilateralism during Sunday’s call: all eyes on the Biden administration to fight coronavirus MORE, remained in his position as head of the National Institute of Allergies and Infectious Diseases.

– Updated at 9:01 p.m.

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