My mom ‘Obie’ would have celebrated her birthday this week. She’d still be alive if Trump and Birx had done their jobs

In a CNN documentary that aired on Sunday night, Dr. Deborah Birx, coordinator of the White House’s coronavirus task force under Donald Trump, said the former President’s response to the virus caused hundreds of thousands to die. “There were about 100,000 deaths that came from that original surge,” she said. “All of the rest of them, in my mind, could have been mitigated or decreased substantially,” she added, referring to almost 450,000 deaths.