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Democracy Dies in Darkness

Birx’s ‘Fox News Sunday’ interview lays bare the discord in Trump’s coronavirus response

Analysis by Aaron Blake

Staff writer

May 4, 2020 at 7:41 a.m. EDT

President Trump with Deborah Birx, the White House coronavirus response coordinator. (Jabin Botsford/The Washington Post)

The Washington Post published its latest in-depth investigation into the Trump administration’s uneven response to the coronavirus pandemic on Saturday night. On Sunday morning, an interview with a leading medical expert on the White House task force reinforced it.

Appearing on “Fox News Sunday,” Deborah Birx offered very different comments compared with President Trump’s on the projected coronavirus death toll and the protesters who recently stormed the Michigan State Capitol.