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Giroir, who oversees coronavirus testing, complaining that they were “parroting the president.” Only Dr. Birx, Fauci and Redfield, as well as Adm. Gonsalves, who has long known both of them, said he wrote in March to Drs. Birx drew unfavorable comparisons with the outspoken Dr. In interviews with AIDS activists and public health experts, Dr. Fauci, the government’s top infectious disease expert, and Dr. Pence weekly and the president at least once a week, and must contend with competing forces on the task force, which includes Dr.

She is also the point of contact for state and local officials, and oversees the drafting of detailed reports offering guidance to the states. Birx serves as a link between federal agencies - the Departments of Defense, Homeland Security, Health and Human Services, and others - engaged in the response. Her defenders, and even her critics, say she is in a difficult spot, serving a mercurial president who has shown little regard for science.įrom her office in the West Wing, Dr. Birx declined to be interviewed for this article. “It requires a lot of guts to do that.”ĭr.

Birx, said, “I know that she told the vice president, ‘Enough is enough you’re putting a mask on and appearing with a mask,’” adding that Mr. Carlos del Rio, an infectious disease specialist at Emory University who leads the scientific advisory board for a State Department AIDS program run by Dr. I was a little less aggressive,” he said.ĭr. Tate Reeves of Mississippi, a Republican, said she prodded him for weeks to institute a statewide mask order this week he relented. “She is absolutely data driven, so it is incredibly disappointing to see her coordinating a national response which has not at all been best in class, but has been a disaster on many levels.”īut beyond the cameras and outside the Washington media bubble, governors say she deserves praise for persistence and presence.

“Her credibility, particularly in the H.I.V.-AIDS community, has taken an enormous hit in the last five months,” said Mitchell Warren, the executive director of AVAC, a global advocacy group fighting to end H.I.V./AIDS, who has worked closely with Dr. Trump called her “pathetic” after she suggested the obvious: The coronavirus is in a “new phase” and is spreading rampantly. Pelosi said she had lost confidence in Dr. Trump and, more so, at the performance of the federal response she is supposed to be leading against the most devastating public health crisis in a century. Old allies and public health experts have expressed disgust at her accommodations to Mr.