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Millions of Americans are already getting vaccinated every week with the potential to reach Joe Biden’s goal of 100 million vaccines administered in a span of 100 days or even less.
In a recent interview, Dr. Deborah Birx, who was among the health experts in the Trump administration’s COVID-19 task force, revealed that military protocols stopped her from questioning the now-former president’s suggestion of injecting bleach to kill the coronavirus.
Speaking with ABC News, Dr. Birx recalled that she was very uncomfortable when she had to listen to Trump suggest injecting or ingesting bleach in order to kill the coronavirus. Dr. Birx, who is a former US Army physician, said that she had been trained not to show up a superior officer no matter how outrageous a statement was being made. Dr. Birx added that she still thinks about that moment to this day.
“I have spent almost 30 years in the military. I worked for every president from Jimmy Carter up and through President Bush,” said Dr. Birx. “Those of you who have served in the military know that there are discussions you have in private with your commanding officers and there’s discussions you had in public,”
“Frankly I didn’t know how to handle that episode. I still think about it every day,” said Dr. Birx. The health expert noted that she did not think to correct Trump at the time. “But I was just not trained in my years … to react that way. I think maybe if someone didn’t have the military training I had, maybe they would’ve reacted differently.”
Compared to his predecessors who have publicly been given the vaccine, Trump and first lady Melania Trump both received the COVID-19 vaccine quietly before leaving Washington in January. Recently, the former president urged his supporters to get vaccinated.
In a phone-in interview on Fox News, Trump told host Maria Bartiromo that the vaccines are safe. This comes as surveys have shown that Republicans and Trump supporters are the top two demographics that are opposed to getting a COVID-19 vaccine.
Despite urging his supporters to get vaccinated, Trump noted that some may still refuse in the name of “Freedom.”
“I would recommend it, and I would recommend it to a lot of people that don’t want to get it,” said the former president.
