Dr Birx told President Trump in April that the coronavirus would soon be gone and influenced the administration's push to reopen the economy and lift lockdown

• Dr Deborah Birx, the chief medical officer on the White House coronavirus task force, told Trump administration officials in April that the virus would likely soon go away, reported The New York Times on Saturday. 
• According to the report, Birx believed the US would follow the same trajectory as Italy, with a sharp increase in cases followed by a gradual decline. 
• The optimistic assessment provided by Birx reportedly influenced the Trump administration's push to reopen the economy and lift lockdown. 
• Dr Anthony Fauci, another top member of the task force, has claimed that the states lifted lockdown too early, leading infection rates climb rapidly after weeks in decline. 
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Dr Deborah Birx, the chief medical officer on the White House coronavirus task force, told the Trump administration in April that it was not a long term problem for the U, reported The New York Times. 

Birx claimed that the virus in the US would follow the same trajectory as it did in Italy, with a sharp spike in infections followed by a gradual decline in infections. 

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