Deborah Birx, a member of Trump’s Coronavirus Task Force and one of two leading medical experts on the team, revealed on Monday that over the weekend she chose not to treat her sick 10 month old granddaughter who had a temperature of 105, because she didn’t want Trump or Pence to get sick.
“We need to take care of each other now as Americans. And I know they’re tough,” Birx said. “My grandchild of 10 months had a fever of 105 this weekend. I’m a doctor, and I couldn’t get there. So I’m trying to explain to my daughter how to listen to her lungs.”
“You could not get there?” Trump, 73, asked Birx as she was speaking.
“I could not go there!” Birx quipped back, prompting Trump to say, “Good, I’m glad to hear it.”
“I did not go there, because of you two,” Birx said in reference to Trump and Pence, 60. “I mean, you can’t take that kind of risk with leaders of the country.”
