Dr. Deborah Birx said Friday that the nation was struggling in its fight against the coronavirus, suggesting that some states had become hot spots like New York was previously.
NBC’s Savannah Guthrie had asked Birx, the White House coronavirus response coordinator, “how much worse” was the White House waiting before the pandemic improved.
“Well, it really depends on the next set of cities. I mean, we’re already starting to see a plateau in these four critical states that have really suffered in the last four weeks, making Texas, California, Arizona and Florida the main subways and in all of their counties, “said the adviser to the White House to NBC “Today.”
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“And I just want to make it clear to the American public: What we have now is essentially three New Yorkers with these three main states.”
Johns Hopkins data shows that New York continues to lead in cases per 100,000 residents, but, as Birx noted, cases increased in other states.
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Florida, for example, has continually added thousands of cases throughout the month of July. It recently exceeded 400,000 positive cases from when the pandemic started.
Birx’s comments came amid broader debate about how individual states were handling the virus. Birx coronavirus advisor Dr. Anthony Fauci recently received a wave of reaction for claiming that New York “correctly” addressed the crisis. States like Texas and Florida have also faced allegations that they reopened too early during the pandemic.
