Trump plans huge White House party amid dire pandemic warnings

Enlarge / Response coordinator for White House Coronavirus Task Force Deborah Birx wears a facemask as she listens to US President Donald Trump deliver a news conference in the Brady Briefing Room of the White House in Washington, DC, on July 23, 2020. (credit: Getty | Jim Watson)

A top White House coronavirus adviser is sounding a dire alarm over the ongoing record-high surge in coronavirus cases in the country, warning, We are entering the most concerning and most deadly phase of this pandemic"-a warning that President Donald Trump is openly disregarding.

In a November 2 internal report leaked to The Washington Post, White House coronavirus task force coordinator Deborah Birx wrote that the United States will likely see more than 100,000 new cases a day this week. The surge will lead to increasing mortality" in the coming weeks and months. She called upon the administration to take much more aggressive action."

This is not about lockdowns," Dr. Birx noted bluntly. It hasn't been about lockdowns since March or April. It's about an aggressive balanced approach that is not being implemented."

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