| ...
| "I felt like the White House had gotten somewhat complacent
| through the campaign season," said Deborah Birx, whom
| President Donald Trump chose to steer his government's
| virus response, according to interview excerpts released by
| the House select subcommittee on the pandemic.
|
| Birx, who sat for interviews with the subcommittee on Oct.
| 12 and 13, also detailed advice that she said the White
| House ignored late last year, including more aggressively
| testing younger Americans, expanding access to virus
| treatments and better distributing vaccine doses in
| long-term care facilities.
|
| More than 130,000 American lives could have been saved with
| swifter action and better coordinated public health
| messages after the virus's first wave, Birx told
| investigators.
| ...
<https://www.washingtonpost.com/health/2021/10/26/birx-testimony-congress-pandemic/>

--bks