{"id":43310,"date":"2020-12-24T12:22:54","date_gmt":"2020-12-24T16:22:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/?p=43310"},"modified":"2020-12-24T12:22:54","modified_gmt":"2020-12-24T16:22:54","slug":"good-riddance-deborah-birx-a-flaming-hypocrite-is-gone","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/?p=43310","title":{"rendered":"Good Riddance, Deborah Birx. A Flaming Hypocrite is Gone!"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1>Dr. Birx says she will retire after \u2018overwhelming\u2019 holiday travel scandal<\/h1>\n<p><!--more--><br \/>\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" height=\"348\" width=\"618\" allowfullscreen=\"\" frameborder=\"0\" src=\"\/\/players.brightcove.net\/4137224153001\/6aIMRO3kiI_default\/index.html?videoId=5797275170001\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>By Ebony Bowden<br \/>\nNew York Post<\/p>\n<p>WASHINGTON \u2014 Dr. Deborah Birx has announced she plans to retire after being\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2020\/12\/20\/birx-went-to-florida-on-thanksgiving-despite-her-travel-warnings\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">outed on Sunday<\/a>\u00a0for not following her own holiday travel guidance, calling the experience \u201coverwhelming.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>In an interview with\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ambercstrong\/status\/1341422174624763907?s=21\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Newsy<\/a>, the White House coronavirus task force coordinator said she would help the incoming Biden administration but then planned to head for the exits.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI want the Biden administration to be successful,\u201d Birx said, noting that she has worked in the federal government since the Reagan administration in 1980.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI will be helpful in any role that people think I can be helpful in and then I will retire,\u201d she went on.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI will have to say, as a civil servant, I will be helpful through a period of time, and then I will have to say, this experience has been a bit overwhelming. It has been very difficult on my family \u2026 I think what was done over the last week to my family.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The infectious disease expert, 64, was outed on Sunday for not following her own travel guidance when she was joined by three different generations of family at one of her vacation properties on Fenwick Island in Delaware the day after Thanksgiving.<\/p>\n<p>She was roundly criticized for not following her own orders after publicly urging Americans in the days leading up to Thanksgiving to limit gatherings to \u201cyour immediate household.\u201d<\/p>\n<div class=\"inline-related alignright\">\n<div id=\"more-on\" class=\"module--see-also box module inline related desktop\">\n<div class=\"module-wrapper \">\n<article class=\"story-photo-box  oversize-headline\">\n<div class=\"headline-wrapper\">\n<div class=\"headline-container\">\n<h3 class=\"postid-16868185 headline\"><\/h3>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/article>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has also warned Americans not to travel over the holidays and had discouraged indoor gatherings involving members of different households as infection rates continue to soar.<\/p>\n<p>Birx, who is an internationally recognized AIDS researcher, had been pursuing a role in the incoming Biden administration, according to an\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/deborah-birx-seeks-role-biden-government-a1ba8edc7da9bef0c08df15c099ecf8c\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Associated Press report<\/a>\u00a0from earlier this month.<\/p>\n<p>But in the Newsy interview, Birx indicated she had changed her mind due to the intense focus on her personal life.<\/p>\n<p>She also tried to justify her decision to travel to Delaware from Washington with her husband, daughter, son-in-law and two grandchildren.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI think what was done in the past week to my family \u2014 you know, they didn\u2019t choose this for me. They\u2019ve tried to be supportive, but to drag my family into this,\u201d Birx trailed off.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMy daughter hasn\u2019t left that house in 10 months, my parents have been isolated for 10 months. They\u2019ve become deeply depressed as I\u2019m sure many elderly have as they\u2019ve not been able to see their sons, their granddaughters,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMy parents have not been able to see their surviving son for over a year. These are all very difficult things,\u201d she added.<\/p>\n<p>___<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2020\/12\/22\/dr-deborah-birx-to-retire-after-holiday-travel-scandal\/\">https:\/\/nypost.com\/2020\/12\/22\/dr-deborah-birx-to-retire-after-holiday-travel-scandal\/<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dr. Birx says she will retire after \u2018overwhelming\u2019 holiday travel scandal<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-43310","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43310","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=43310"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43310\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=43310"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=43310"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=43310"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}