Birx says she has “always” considered leaving the Trump COVID-19 task force

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Deborah BirxDeborah Birx Sunday Shows Preview: All Eyes On Biden Administration To Tackle Coronavirus Birx Says She Regularly Considered Quitting Pence Delivers Coronavirus Task Force Report To Biden MORE said in a new interview she “always considered” stepping down from the White House coronavirus task force President TrumpDonald Trump NYT: Rep. Perry played a role in alleged Trump plan to oust acting AG Arizona GOP, condemns top state Republicans McCain, Flake and Ducey Biden and UK Prime Minister discuss NATO multilateralism on call MORE was in office.

Birx, who had previously served in public health positions in the George W. Bush and Obama administrations, said on CBS’s “Face the Nation” that colleagues often assumed that along with her role as coordinator of the White House’s coronavirus response. agenda.

“Colleagues of mine who I had known for decades … decades in that one experience, being in the White House, decided I had become this political person, even if they knew me forever,” she told host Margaret Brennan. “I had to ask myself every morning, is there anything I think I can do that would be helpful in responding to this pandemic, and that’s something I was asking myself every night.”

Asked if she was considering quitting, Birx replied, “Always. I mean, why would you want to put yourself through that every day? “

“I always feel that I could have done more, could have been more forthright, maybe more outspoken in public. I didn’t know all the implications of all these issues,” Birx said when asked about her biggest mistake with the task force .

She also described her ongoing frustration with her perception that her guidance was being ignored.

“[W]When it got to a point where I got nowhere and that was just before the election, I wrote a very detailed communication plan on what to do the day after the election and how to do it, ”she said. “And there was a lot of promise that that would happen.”

Birx announced her retirement when President Biden took office last week. Another of the public faces of the public health response to the virus, Anthony FauciAnthony FauciAstraZeneca vaccine distribution begins in Brazil Biden and UK Prime Minister discuss NATO multilateralism on Sunday call shows preview: All eyes on Biden administration to tackle coronavirus MORE, remained in his position as head of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases.

– Updated at 9:01 am

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