Dr Birx Compares Long Covid19 To HIV Because How It Destroys The Immune System

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NewsNation 1/10/24: The former coordinator of the White House coronavirus response in the early days of the pandemic says if the U.S. wants to be prepared for the next health crisis, it needs to learn from its mistakes.

Dr. Deborah Birx was in the spotlight nearly daily in 2020, informing the public on how the Trump administration and Centers for Disease Control and Prevention were handling the infectious disease that killed more than 1.1 million Americans.

Nearly four years later, the response and actions taken by the government have been subject to scrutiny, whether it be over mask mandates or how much scientists knew about the virus.

The ailment known as long COVID also continues to puzzle doctors, who have not yet been able to identify what causes the prolonged symptoms in patients.

As the virus continues to infect Americans, Birx draws comparisons to HIV, which was also asymptomatic at first.

“There’s two sides of this coin every time. There’s a lot of destruction that mild and moderate COVID can do that is on-scene just like HIV was destroying our immune system, but what came out of that is brilliant science that changed how we treated HIV,” Birx said. “If you’re diagnosed today, you can live a very normal lifespan and people not only survive, but thrive. We need to get to the place where people with long COVID … cannot only survive, but thrive.”