The White House Coronavirus Task Force coordinator told "Meet the Press" there are encouraging signs but re-openings will be slow.
WASHINGTON — Dr. Deborah Birx, the White House Coronavirus Task Force coordinator, told NBC News'"Meet the Press" Sunday that while the coronavirus trends give her “great hope” for slow re-openings over the next few months, many of the social distancing measures that have upended American life will be a constant fixture through the summer.
Birx said that current diagnostic testing, which tests a sample from someone’s nose or mouth for evidence of the live virus, can “carry us through the spring and summer.” Birx also addressed Trump’s recent musings about whether disinfectant or using ultraviolet light could help as a treatment for those infected with coronavirus, comments Trump later said were sarcastic. On Saturday, she told Fox News that the president was “digesting” information about a recent study about the effect of sunlight on the virus, comments she reiterated Sunday.
Birx voiced some optimism about the country’s direction. Days after Vice President Mike Pence suggested that the virus will be largely “behind us” after Memorial Day, she told “Meet the Press” that new modeling based off of the virus’ progression in America is promising.
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