![]() But under the shadow of Covid variants, vaccination rates are also slowing and the US is on track to pass 600,000 deaths this week. He called Atlas “a bit of a Frankenstein’s monster that Donald Trump created”.ĭeaths from Covid-19 have slowed dramatically as more Americans are vaccinated and society reopens. Slavitt told the Daily Beast Birx “did some good things”. They didn’t do any of those things and they didn’t plan and put together a competent response and it largely it had to do with the person they all worked for.” ![]() “Show a little bit of empathy, lead the country by asking for even a small amount of sacrifice. And you know the job that they had to do was, essentially, at a bare minimum, acknowledge that we have a more serious situation than we have ever had. “I contacted the White House,” he said, “I contacted Jared Kushner, every one of my conversations with Jared Kushner and Deborah Birx, they’re in the book. Speaking to the Daily Beast’s The New Abnormal podcast, Slavitt said he had “kind of a front-row seat” to the chaos of the US response, prominently including Scott Atlas, a Stanford medic but not an epidemiologist or infectious diseases specialist and an aggressive champion for Trump in the press. He is reportedly working on a book of his own. Kushner’s view that governors should take the blame for US failures has been reported elsewhere. Slavitt says Kushner told him some governors “clearly don’t want to succeed” and had “bad incentives to keep blaming us”. Slavitt also writes of conversations with Jared Kushner, Trump’s son-in-law who led the federal response. “Her early optimism was long gone,” Slavitt writes of his meeting with Birx, according to CNN, adding: “At the end of October 2020, she was beyond all of that she was downright scared.” Slavitt, who also worked to fix the Affordable Care Act website, spoke to such figures in an informal role. ![]() The book draws on conversations with Trump insiders. His book, Preventable: The Inside Story of How Leadership Failures, Politics, and Selfishness Doomed the US Coronavirus Response, is published on Tuesday. Slavitt stepped down last week as senior adviser to the Biden pandemic response.
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