Birx was behind the effort to keep data from the CDC

[bluedye33139]

"Birx spearheaded the administration's recent decision to have hospitals send information on coronavirus patients to a new federal database, a source involved with the process told CNN, bypassing the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, an agency Birx has often complained about to colleagues..."

https://www.cnn.com/2020/07/17/politics/birx-coronavirus-task-force-political-skills-reputation/index.html

She's a conservative Republican. I thought maybe she was one of the good people because of her history of HIV work, until I found out that she sat on the board of an anti-gay right-wing group whose focus was the "innocent victims" of HIV. That is extremely loaded, dangerous language. The "innocent victims" are people with HIV who are not gay men.

[MontanaMama]

1. I've never trusted Dr. Scarf.

Not for a minute.

[Doremus]

50. Me either. I've not trusted Dr Mengele since I saw her first news conference. nt

[liberalla]

51. Me either! I always viewed her with distrust and skepticism. Everything about her

reminds me of those phony, pushy, holier-than-thou church lady types.

[Nevilledog]

2. Fuck Birx

[malaise]

3. Of course she was

That woman allowed the Con to tell Americans to use Lysol and bleach and did not interrupt him. I would have been fired on spot, but I would have shouted "Are you out of your fucking mind", live on air.

[Marie Marie]

45. OK then. I nominate malaise to replace Dr Scarf on the task force immediately.

malaise speaks my language.

[malaise]

48. I am not qualified

[Leghorn21]

4. Yeah, she's BAD NEWS

When she went on camera telling us how bunkerboi consumes information and studies the data, me and the rest of the world said YEAH I DON’T THINK SO LADY

[central scrutinizer]

10. Consumes and studies like this

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[Leghorn21]

26. Exactly, c!

[alittlelark]

5. FUXBIRX

[diva77]

6. RESIGN NOW!! I hope her medical license gets revoked.

[Demsrule86]

7. On day one Biden fires her scarf encased Trumper self...day one...bye

[C Moon]

43. When Trump is removed from the WH, I have a feeling his sycophants

will all depart on the same day, without leaving any information for the new administration.

[dalton99a]

8. The president is highly qualified to analyze the data

“He’s been so attentive to the scientific literature and the details and the data. I think his ability to analyze and integrate data that comes out of his long history in business has really been a real benefit during these discussions about medical issues because in the end, data is data and he understands the importance of the granularity."

[Nevilledog]

16. "So I told them, slow the testing down." This shows ability to analyze?

FUBirx

[dalton99a]

17. Zero tests means zero cases - no data to analyze!

[Nevilledog]

19. Voila!

[krkaufman]

41. Yep, that was determinant

Link to tweet

[stillcool]

9. much worse than I thought.

she's made her bones.

[Mike Nelson]

11. Well...

... I've never trusted her... her words and "charts" are presented in a way to praise Trump-Pence. She hurries over unflattering stuff and promotes falsehoods. She may not be completely happy with her president, but I think she's loyal to him.

... also, I've noticed many here on DU could tell she was "off" somewhat - from the moment she arrived on the scene.

[procon]

12. Jealous of Fauci, she just cut him out of the loop

and eliminated her competition. She's large and in charge now, and she's gonna flaunted well earned bonus loyalty points with Trump for the cheap price of selling her professional honor and integrity.

Now that she's assured that Trump has sole possession of the hospital statistical data, there is nothing stopping him from altering and manipulating the info to suit his agenda.

The only saving grace is Trump's lack of credibility which makes him inherently distrusted. So whatever crapifying he tries to do to the numbers, no one is going to believe anything he says.

[Blue_true]

18. They can manipulate people dying in isolation, their families not being with them

in their last moments. They can manipulate morgues being filled and having to use refrigerated trucks to hold bodies. All of those events are highly abnormal, they can’t be hidden.

[chia]

13. I never liked her, didn't have a good feeling about her, knew it ran deeper than her stupid scarves

and now I know why. Thanks for the added information.

[Blue_true]

14. In his first acts as President, Biden should fire her. nt

[Takket]

15. the minute she said the media was being "slicey dicey" with its reporting, she was dead to me

[MLAA]

20. She is a sick asshole.

Disgusting that she was on the anti LGBTQ HIV board.

[bucolic_frolic]

21. A normal administration would fire her. Today.

[FelineOverlord]

22. She should lose her medical license

She should lose her medical license for deliberately giving false information.

[warmfeet]

23. WTF?

President Biden will have a great deal of cleaning up to do come January 2021. I am willing to pitch in and do my part. Not sure what that may be just yet, but I am willing and able to do my part.

[Sloumeau]

24. I never liked Birx. At the press conferences, she kept saying things that were not true but that...

sounded like the same kind of things that Trump would want her to say. She is dirt.

[a kennedy]

25. SHUT UP.......she's a republican???

[bluestarone]

27. She fits right into the tRUMP family!

Fauci has proved them ALL WRONG her included!!

[Jarqui]

28. I do not understand any good reason why the data could not be sent to both

Businesses do it all the time.
Updates would not be a massive amount of data.

[Mopar151]

30. But of course

You BCC The CDC

[choie]

29. Is she being set up as a scapegoat

for a policy change that was roundly blasted.

[Mopar151]

31. Everybody in Trump world is, eventually. nt

[jaxexpat]

32. Thought from the beginning she was wallpaper.

[AlexSFCA]

33. the new christian conservative champion?

[BadgerMom]

34. K/R

Let everyone know!

[BamaRefugee]

35. She's a Christian fundamentalist with dark dreams of bedding down her savior DJT. Watch her eyes

when he turns to her and calls her "Deborah", never "Dr. Birx".
She absolutely radiates a glowing aura of deep fundy forbidden NEED.

[not fooled]

37. ++++++++++++

Yet another religious kook who wants this country to be a (fake) xtian theocracy and believes in the Noble Lie, for Jeebus.

[Initech]

36. This should be considered an act of treason.

Thousands died needlessly because of this act of pure recklessness, and thousands more are going to lose their lives before this pandemic is over. This is grossly irresponsible, and Birx and Trump should both be charged for this.

[vlyons]

38. She is an evangelical

God I wish Jesus would hurry up and wisk all the Christians off in the rapture.

[Progressive Jones]

40. Yeah, that "rapture" is taking too long to get here. nt

[Progressive Jones]

39. Probably a "ladder climber" who wants to get into Trump's pants. LOL. nt

[SergeStorms]

42. I knew she was shilling for Trump.

Rotten......... .witch.

[applegrove]

44. I thought she was drinking Kool-aid the first few times i saw her at press

conferences then i found out she worked with aids patients, was hired to do that before Trump was elected and thought my gut was wrong. My gut was right. I'd rather be wrong.

[Marie Marie]

46. Didn't I read somewhere (probably here) that Trump like her and called her "elegant"?

[luvallpeeps]

47. Okie dokie

She was concerned about the innocent victims of HIV, but the innocent victims of covid 19 can go inject bleach. Got it.

[Progressive dog]

49. Not surprised that Dr. Birx

is just another Trump toady. That's why he put her as the face of covid19 propaganda.

[ck4829]

52. Kick