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Covid-
19: Task Force Coordinator Dr. Deborah Birx To Step Down Following Holiday Travel Fallout
The coordinator of the White House COVID-19 response is planning to retire once the transition to President-elect Joe Biden is complete next month following a firestorm of controversy after she apparently violated the CDC's guidelines for travel. Dr. Deborah Birx, who has been one of the public faces in the fight against the virus, announced on Tuesday, Dec. 22 in an interview with Newsy that she was planning to step down from her position, though no specific timeline was provided for her retirement. The announcement comes days after it was reported that Birx ignored federal health official…
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19: Uptick In Northeast Cases 'Concerning,' Says Dr. Birx Of Coronavirus Task Force
One of the leaders of the White House’s Coronavirus Task Force is cautioning that the rise of recent COVID-19 cases in the Northeast is “concerning.” Dr. Deborah Birx said in Boston on Friday, Oct. 9 that she’s seen signs of a “silent spread” of COVID-19 in the Northeast, calling it concerning and commenting that people in the region take precautions to help curtail the spread of the virus. “We do see some of those early signs that we saw across the south after Memorial Day, a sense that there’s early, asymptomatic silent spread occurring in communities,” Brix said. Birx said that the spr…
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Covid-
19: Here's Percentage Of Americans Now Wearing Masks During Pandemic
The majority of Americans are now wearing some sort of face covering in public when leaving the house during the ongoing novel coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic, according to a new poll. A newly released poll found that 55 percent of Americans who left their homes in the past week said they were a face mask or face covering, while 45 percent said they did not. According to the poll, 69 percent of Democrats and 47 percent of Republicans wore a covering. The ABC poll was conducted between Wednesday, April 8 and Thursday, April 9, days after President Donald Trump announced the Center for Disea…