Former White House COVID-19 coordinator, Dr. Deborah Birx, is now working in the private sector.
Birx, who was a familiar face at coronavirus meetings at the White House under former President Donald Trump, is now working as a medical and scientific consultant for ActivePure Technology in Texas, an air filtration company, Reuters reported.
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 his retirement at the end of last year, after being criticized for reuniting with three generations of his own family after Thanksgiving – while warning Americans to avoid groups outside their “immediate families” on holidays.
She officially left the federal government this week, she said.
“The Biden government wanted a clean slate. I understand that perfectly well, ”Birx told Reuters in an interview, adding that he regrets his role in responding to the pandemic.
“I’m trying to classify them,” she said of her regret. “We have to be willing to take a step back and really look at where we could be and why we weren’t more effective.
“When you have the 100,000 people we lost during the summer and the 300,000 people we lost during the autumn-winter wave, you have to ask yourself and find out if it didn’t go as well as it should.”
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