The former COVID-19 coordinator of the White House, dr. Deborah Birx, now working in the private sector.
Birx, who was a familiar face during the White House’s Coronavirus briefings under former President Donald Trump, now works as chief medical and scientific adviser for ActivePure Technology in Texas, an air filtration company, Reuters reports.
She also joined the George W. Bush Institute as a global health fellow and the biopharmaceutical company Innoviva as a board member, she told Reuters.
Birx announced late last year that she had retired after meeting with three generations of her own family after Thanksgiving – while Americans were warned to avoid groups outside their ‘immediate households’ for the holidays.
She officially left the federal government this week, she said.
“Biden’s government wanted a clean slate. I fully understand that, ‘Birx told Reuters in an interview, adding that she regrets her role in the pandemic response.
“I’m trying to arrange them,” she said of her regret. “We have to be prepared to step back and really analyze where we could have been and why we were no longer effective.
“If you have the 100,000 people we lost during the summer, and the 300,000 people we lost during the fall-winter boom, you need to ask yourself and know that it did not go as well as it used to. it should not have been. “
With wires