Many in Trump White House believed coronavirus was ‘hoax’, Deborah Birx says

Several people within the Trump White House believed the coronavirus pandemic to be a “hoax,” said a coordinator on the Trump administration’s Covid task force and one of its leading spokespeople.

“There were people who definitely believed that this was a hoax,” Dr Deborah Birx told CBS in an interview that aired on Sunday.

Dr Birx indicated that some of the president’s top advisers simply did not understand the magnitude of the disease’s impact because – as with any virus – the impact varies from patient to patient.