Dr. Deborah Birx: 'A lot of states have been doing exactly what we asked them to: find, test, contract trace and contain. They are finding the first case, finding the other 50 cases ... and stopping community spread. And that's been very reassuring to me.'
Dr. Deborah Birx, White House coronavirus response coordinator, listens during a meeting at the White House earlier this month.Dr. Deborah Birx, White House coronavirus response coordinator, listens during a meeting at the White House earlier this month.White House coronavirus task force coordinator Dr. Deborah Birx said on Tuesday that she is encouraged by the latest data showing declines in new cases of the virus, hospitalizations and deaths across all but a few areas of the United States.
Three exceptions, where indicators have plateaued rather than declined: the Washington D.C., metro area, Chicago, and Los Angeles."We're dissecting each one of these plateaus and providing daily updates to the task force on what's community spread and what's outbreak in terms of new cases. We study these three metros that are closed and have been closed to understand where precisely the new cases are coming from and how to prevent new infections," Birx said.
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