March 29, 2021
(CNN)No longer working under the Trump administration, six leading US health officials now reveal to CNN the real challenges they faced during the nation’s fight against Covid-19 over the past year: death threats, mixed messages and in some cases, being kept from sharing information with national audiences.
The nation’s doctors — Dr. Deborah Birx, Dr. Anthony Fauci, Dr. Brett Giroir, Dr. Stephen Hahn, Dr. Robert Kadlec and Dr. Robert Redfield — were fighting a pandemic that would claim more than 500,000 American lives, all while navigating a White House fraught with strained relationships and very little mask-wearing.
The six doctors responsible for the previous administration’s Covid-19 response reflect on the past year with CNN’s Chief Medical Correspondent Dr. Sanjay Gupta in a new CNN special report, “COVID WAR: The Pandemic Doctors Speak Out.”
Their reflections reveal a common theme — there was contention behind closed doors and a lack of preparedness.
Just as there has been growing divisiveness in the United States during the pandemic, there was divisiveness among America’s leadership.
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