Deborah Birx

During a House select committee meeting Thursday, former White House coronavirus response coordinator Dr. Deborah Birx testified that radiologist and political commentator Dr. Scott Atlas pushed former President Trump to enact ‘dangerous’ pandemic policies.

Dr. Deborah Birx, former coronavirus response coordinator for the Trump Administration, testified Thursday before a congressional committee about early missteps in the pandemic. “Creating the sense among the American people that [COVID-19] would… have the fatalities equivalent to flu created a sense among the American people that this was not going to be a serious pandemic.”