‘Graphs that I never made’: Birx says ‘parallel data streams’ muddled Trump coronavirus response

Published January 24, 2021 5:32pm ET



Dr. Deborah Birx recounted an atmosphere of censorship and competition for the former president’s attention regarding key coronavirus data during a wide-ranging, 90-minute interview that aired on Sunday.

During an interview with CBS’s Face the Nation, Birx said she had to “remove all of the ancillary data that was coming in” when she was tapped to serve on former President Donald Trump’s coronavirus task force and said that “parallel data streams” still made their way into the White House — data that different from what she had given to the vice president.

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