Dr. Birx Says China Mortality Rates from COVID “Unrealistic”

Trump’s head of the coronavirus response team, Dr. Deborah Birx, has admitted that she questions the COVID mortality rates reported by China.

Up until now, she’s been mostly cautious in her communications to the public, but on Saturday she left no doubt that she believes China isn’t giving the world the entire story.

Dr. Birx prepared an informative PowerPoint presentation as part of Saturday’s press briefing. On one of the slides, she lists the “deaths per 100,000” population, which is a standard for measuring the deadliness of a disease.

While countries with advanced medical systems, such as Belgium, reported over 40 deaths per 100,000, China reports only 0.33 deaths per 100,000. Doesn’t that seem a bit odd?

Notably, the US stood at just over 11 deaths per 100,000.

Read what Newsweek had to report about Dr. Birx’s data:

President Donald Trump was not the only member of his administration’s Coronavirus Task Force on Saturday to question China’s very low death rate from the COVID-19 pandemic. His task force response coordinator had questions, even calling China’s rate “basically unrealistic.”

Dr. Deborah Birx, the White House coronavirus response coordinator, displayed a graph that shows the mortality rates of countries around the world, and China is at the bottom with the lowest rate.

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Belgium tops the list with a 45.2 deaths per 100,000 people, with the United States close to the bottom at an 11.24. Then there’s China, with an asterisk next to its name, with 0.33. Birx explained why China was on the chart, saying the country where coronavirus originated should have also been transparent when first dealing with the virus that became a global pandemic.

“I put China on there so you could see how basically unrealistic this could be,” Birx said. “When highly-developed health care delivery systems of the United Kingdom and France and Belgium, Italy and Spain with extraordinary doctors and nurses and equipment, have case fatality rates in the 20s and up to 45 in Belgium, which has an extraordinary competent health care delivery system and then China at point-33.”

The coronavirus, first detected in Wuhan, China in late 2019, now has cases that have topped 2.3 million worldwide, with nearly 160,000 deaths around the globe by April 18. The United States leads all countries in both cases (734,000) and deaths (38,000). Birx suggested the numbers in China be much greater than they have been reported.

“You realize these numbers, even though this includes the doubled number out of Wuhan. So I wanted really to put it in perspective, but I also wanted you to see how great the care has been for every American that has been hospitalized.”

You can see Dr. Birx’s full comments below. In the clip, she asserts that China’s figures are “unrealistic”:

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