The millennials are incredibly good about getting information out in a clear way, but more importantly, they are incredibly good about understanding how to protect one another, how to protect their parents and how to protect their grandparents. Deborah Birx Read Quote
These guidelines are extraordinarily important. It’s about social distancing, it’s about washing your hands. It’s about ensuring that you’re protecting yourself and protecting others. It’s not about partying on beaches during spring break. Deborah Birx Read Quote
I am the mom of two wonderful millennial young women who are bright and hardworking, and I will tell you what I told them: They are the core group that will stop this virus. They are the group that communicates successfully, independent of picking up a phone. They intuitively know how to contact each other without being in large social gatherings. Deborah Birx Read Quote
A company like Nike can convince people to buy Air Jordans even though they never saw Michael Jordan play. Deborah Birx Read Quote
There are other countries that if you had a preexisting condition, and let’s say the virus caused you to go to the ICU and then have a heart or kidney problem, some countries are recording as a heart issue or a kidney issue and not a COVID-19 death. Deborah Birx Read Quote
We want combination solutions at the state level, at the local level – whether we’ve learned from the Chinese about creating what we’ve been calling COVID wards – creating the ability to actually care for larger numbers of clients and patients in a more concentrated way which allows more oversights so we could really track patients. Deborah Birx Read Quote
Obviously, I come out of the military – I know the amazing work of the men and women in uniform and the work that they can do. Deborah Birx Read Quote
As soon as President Bush announced PEPFAR at the State of the Union, I had already been working in Africa for about five or six years. Deborah Birx Read Quote
The faith community has a really critical role to play. Both giving out accurate and important information and ensuring that everyone in the household feels engaged in their community even though they’re at home themselves. Deborah Birx Read Quote
I think we’ll come to both bringing America together and learning how to interact with each other in a different way that maintains social distancing and that we care. Deborah Birx Read Quote
