Dr. Birx Reportedly Believes Coronavirus Death Toll Inflated By Up To 25%

[Tsing Tao]

The initial article in the thread demonstrates that Dr. Brix NEVER STATED that she "Believes Coronavirus Death Toll Inflated By Up To 25%". All she stated was "“There is nothing from the CDC that I can trust,” Birx reportedly told CDC Director Robert Redfield.

The idea that she stated that the death toll is inflated by up to 25% is merely in the fervent imagination of the author with a political agenda -- who is willing to directly lie in the title of their article to drive their twisted agenda.

Dr. Brix believes that information from the CDC is delayed and under-counts the current deaths.

I guess I have to help people who apparently don't have very good reading comprehension skills:

"During a task force meeting Wednesday, a heated discussion broke out between Deborah Birx, the physician who oversees the administration’s coronavirus response, and Robert Redfield, the director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Birx and others were frustrated with the CDC’s antiquated system for tracking virus data, which they worried was inflating some statistics — such as mortality rate and case count — by as much as 25 percent, according to four people present for the discussion or later briefed on it. Two senior administration officials said the discussion was not heated."
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This is from the Washington Post article the Daily Caller is referring to, and it is the Daily Caller that uses the name of the thread in its article.

 

[Tsing Tao]

I guess I have to help people who apparently don't have very good reading comprehension skills:

"During a task force meeting Wednesday, a heated discussion broke out between Deborah Birx, the physician who oversees the administration’s coronavirus response, and Robert Redfield, the director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Birx and others were frustrated with the CDC’s antiquated system for tracking virus data, which they worried was inflating some statistics — such as mortality rate and case count — by as much as 25 percent, according to four people present for the discussion or later briefed on it. Two senior administration officials said the discussion was not heated."
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This is from the Washington Post article the Daily Caller is referring to, and it is the Daily Caller that uses the name of the thread in its article.

Nothing else to say, gwb?

 

[gwb-trading]

I guess I have to help people who apparently don't have very good reading comprehension skills:

"During a task force meeting Wednesday, a heated discussion broke out between Deborah Birx, the physician who oversees the administration’s coronavirus response, and Robert Redfield, the director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Birx and others were frustrated with the CDC’s antiquated system for tracking virus data, which they worried was inflating some statistics — such as mortality rate and case count — by as much as 25 percent, according to four people present for the discussion or later briefed on it. Two senior administration officials said the discussion was not heated."
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This is from the Washington Post article the Daily Caller is referring to, and it is the Daily Caller that uses the name of the thread in its article.

Once again - this is not a quote of what Dr. Brix actually stated. She did not say the words that the "CDC inflated statistics by much as 25%". This is merely a talking point that administration officials are trying to push. We should actually take a look at the words that Dr. Brix actual stated according to the quotes. Her words is that she did not trust the CDC data since they used antiquated systems and their figures were delayed. This implies an under-count of the cases and deaths on the current day due to the delays in reporting --- unless you are implying that somehow magically the total counts of cases and deaths magically drops every day in the U.S. --- I'm sure the administration would like this but it is not the reality.

 

[Tsing Tao]

Once again - this is not a quote of what Dr. Brix actually stated. She did not say the words that the "CDC inflated statistics by much as 25%". This is merely a talking point that administration officials are trying to push. We should actually take a look at the words that Dr. Brix actual stated according to the quotes. Her words is that she did not trust the CDC data since they used antiquated systems and their figures were delayed. This implies an under-count of the cases and deaths on the current day due to the delays in reporting --- unless you are implying that somehow magically the total counts of cases and deaths magically drops every day in the U.S. --- I'm sure the administration would like this but it is not the reality.

Once again - you are ignoring the article. Apparently this all occurred behind a closed door meeting. So you can question whether it happened, and you can question whether she actually said it, or you can question her competence. But what you can't do is what you're trying to do and say it didn't happen, unless you can tell us you were in the meeting.

But according to four people in the meeting, that's what she said, or what was said and she agreed to it.

 

[gwb-trading]

Once again - you are ignoring the article. Apparently this all occurred behind a closed door meeting. So you can question whether it happened, and you can question whether she actually said it, or you can question her competence. But what you can't do is what you're trying to do and say it didn't happen, unless you can tell us you were in the meeting.

But according to four people in the meeting, that's what she said, or what was said and she agreed to it.

I am questioning the interpretation of the four people at the meeting -- who interpreted her comments to align with the administrations talking points. When in fact her quoted words talk about the delays in reporting make the provided information from the CDC not current & up-to-date. She never stated that they overcounted --- no such words came out of Dr. Brix's mouth.

 

[Tsing Tao]

I am questioning the interpretation of the four people at the meeting -- who interpreted her comments to align with the administrations talking points. When in fact her quoted words talk about the delays in reporting make the provided information from the CDC not current & up-to-date. She never stated that they overcounted --- no such words came out of Dr. Brix's mouth.

You can question anything you want about the meeting. No one knows what happened there or what was said. Not me, not you, not even the paper. But the paper is claiming to have four separate people from the meeting who said it.

So you can believe what you want, but what you don't have is any proof of anything.