Birx responded to a question about whether she believed it was “fair” that President Donald Trump said he would halt funding to the World Health Organization (WHO) over its handling of the pandemic. At the same time, his administration is reviewing its response to the global crisis.
The task force coordinator said that “after this is over,” an investigation should be launched into how the CCP (Chinese Communist Party) virus, commonly known as the novel coronavirus, was able to spread across the globe.
Birx expressed doubts about the accuracy of China’s official CCP virus case and death toll statistics.
“I think early on ... the level of transparency and communication that you need, you have to over-communicate. You have to communicate even the small nuances,“ Birx said. ”When you look at the outbreak that’s been reported in China, and you look at the outbreak that was able to be contained in South Korea and a series of Asian countries—you didn’t see that kind of doubling rate ... that you see all throughout the developed countries of Europe and certainly in the United States.”
In the interview, Birx suggested that Beijing’s lack of transparency meant that the U.S. couldn’t until the start of March “… fully see how contagious this virus was.”
Birx suggested that numerous lives could have been saved if it were known earlier that human-to-human transmission was occurring.
“You really have to go back and ask yourself, why wasn’t there this level of transparency when this virus exploded?” she added. “I think people would have prepared differently if they had known the level of transmissibility of this virus.”
Other experts have said that the Chinese regime may have waited on informing the public about the highly contagious virus.
