'I put China on there so you could see how basically unrealistic this could be,' Dr. Deborah Birx, the White House coronavirus response coordinator, said about China's relatively-low mortality rate to the virus.
President Donald Trump was not the only member of his administration's Coronavirus Task Force on Saturday to question China's very low death rate from the COVID-19 pandemic. His task force response coordinator had questions, even calling China's rate"basically unrealistic."
"I put China on there so you could see how basically unrealistic this could be," Birx said."When highly-developed health care delivery systems of the United Kingdom and France and Belgium, Italy and Spain with extraordinary doctors and nurses and equipment, have case mortality rates [percentages] in the 20s and up to 45 in Belgium, which has an extraordinary competent health care delivery system and then China at point-33.
U.S. President Donald Trump listens as White House coronavirus response coordinator Deborah Birx delivers remarks at a coronavirus press briefing on April 18, 2020 in Washington, DC. Trump spoke about recent gains in the stock market reflect the success of his administrations handling of the coronavirus outbreak.As Birx went to her next slide graph, Trump interrupted her and had White House workers go back to the previous slide. The president pointed at Iran's 6.
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