Sunday, May 10, 2020

Throwdown!! Birx v. CDC

This confirms a lot of what's already been discussed in lots of places on the 'net.  What's surprising is Scarf-Lady's (reported) comment.

...During a task force meeting Wednesday, a heated discussion broke out between Deborah Birx, the physician who oversees the administration’s coronavirus response, and Robert Redfield, the director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Birx and others were frustrated with the CDC’s antiquated system for tracking virus data, which they worried was inflating some statistics — such as mortality rate and case count — by as much as 25 percent, according to four people present for the discussion or later briefed on it. Two senior administration officials said the discussion was not heated. 

“There is nothing from the CDC that I can trust,” Birx said, according to two of the people....
Well........remember, this is MSN, so who knows what was actually said--or in regards to what specific issue?

Also note that you have to read 20 grafs of "Trump election/poll/bad/sinking/economy" crap before getting to the really informative part about CDC's horse-hockey statistics.

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