Dr. Deborah Birx is set to release a book in April on the coronavirus pandemic.
Silent Invasion: The Untold Story of The Trump Administration, COVID-19, and Preventing the Next Pandemic Before It’s Too Late will be published on April 26 by HarperCollins Publishers.
“I wrote ‘Silent Invasion’ to document the full extent of what I witnessed as I tried to save lives during this devastating time,” Birx said in a statement, according to the Associated Press. “In the book, I expose the true cost of mistakes that were made at all levels of the federal government, but I also clarify the things that went right yet remained largely unseen — the insights and innovations that saved American lives in this pandemic and are essential to preparing for the next.”
The book will give an assessment of the Trump administration’s handling of the pandemic. Birx was appointed to be the White House coronavirus response coordinator by former Vice President Mike Pence in 2020. Since leaving that role, she has criticized elements of the Trump administration’s handling of the pandemic.
Last October, Birx told a House Select Subcommittee on the Coronavirus Crisis that she believed the Trump administration could have prevented tens of thousands of deaths in the early part of the pandemic, the New York Times reported. She said his administration should have advocated more aggressively for masking and social distancing to combat the virus.
She was also critical of Dr. Scott Atlas, who served as an adviser on the White House coronavirus task force during the Trump administration. Atlas argued in favor of letting the virus spread through healthy people to achieve herd immunity. His strategy drew criticism from some medical experts, including his former colleagues at Stanford University who expressed concerns about public safety.
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Birx retired in December 2020 and was succeeded by Jeffrey Zients as the White House coronavirus response coordinator when Joe Biden became president. Zients is serving as a senior fellow at the George W. Bush Institute. Birx was also known for her research on AIDS and served as the United States global AIDS coordinator from 2014 to 2021.
