After two months of frantic response to the
coronavirus, the White House is planning to shift President Donald Trump’s public focus to the burgeoning efforts aimed at easing the
economic devastation caused by the pandemic.
Days after he publicly mused that scientists should explore the
injection of toxic disinfectants as a potential virus cure, Trump has now rejected the utility of his
daily task force briefings, where he has time and again
clashed with scientific experts. Trump’s aides are
aiming to move the president onto more familiar — and safer, they hope — ground: talking up the economy, in tighter controlled settings.
Birx expressed frustration that Trump’s injection comments were still in the headlines, illustrating the tensions that have emerged between the president and his medical advisers.
“As a scientist and a public health official and a researcher, sometimes, I worry that we don’t get the information to the American people that they need, when we continue to bring up something that was from Thursday night,” she said on CNN’s “State of the Union.”
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