Dr Deborah Birx ignored her own Thanksgiving advice traveling to her Delaware vacation home with three generations of her family from two different households.
The coordinator of the White House coronavirus response was accompanied by her husband Paige Reffe, one of her daughters, son-in-law and two grandchildren for the Black Friday trip.
She had warned Americans to ‘be vigilant’ and limit celebrations to ‘your immediate household.’
But Dr Birx, 64, insists the roughly 50 hour trip to Fenwick Island was to deal with the winterization of the property before a potential sale – something she says she previously hadn’t had time to do because of her busy schedule.
‘I did not go to Delaware for the purpose of celebrating Thanksgiving,’ Birx said in her statement, adding that her family shared a meal together while in Delaware.
Birx, who has two adult daughters Devynn and Danielle, declined to be interviewed by The Associated Press but said that everyone on her Delaware trip belongs to her ‘immediate household,’ even as she acknowledged they live in two different homes.
The pandemic is delivering its most fearsome surge yet, killing more than 3,000 victims per day and straining the health care system.
As of Sunday morning the U.S. has more than 17.6 million confirmed cases of coronavirus and more than 316,000 deaths – meaning the death rate sit at around 0.017 per cent in the U.S….
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