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In a Thursday evening interview with Fox News Channel’s Bret Baier for Special Report, Dr. Deborah Birx, of the coronavirus task force subtlety and adeptly placed the blame on China for trying to cover up the existence of the coronavirus. She also shot down the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) propaganda that claimed the virus had started in the United States; effectively doing what many liberal media outlets refused to do.
Addressing a question about whether or not she believed China’s recent claims that they have had no new domestic infection cases, Dr. Birx showed a flash skepticism when she did not directly say yes. Instead, she compared their trend line to South Korea’s.
“You know, if you watch the trend lines over time, and if you watch them as you line them up with South Korea they’re very similar. So, at this point, at this moment, we would believe those data,” she said.
But she followed up by noting that China had refused to warn the world about what they knew was spreading out of control within their borders. “I think everyone is still concerned about why we weren't alerted earlier,” she added.
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