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Trump’s former pandemic coordinator suggests that a restrained response may have cost hundreds of thousands of lives.

In one of a series of interviews with U.S. medical officials tasked with the initial fight against the coronavirus, Dr. Deborah Birx said that the country’s loss of life could have been mitigated.

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The C.D.C.’s ex-director offers no evidence in favoring speculation that the coronavirus originated in a lab.

It is a theory decried by many scientists and rejected as “extremely unlikely” by at least one World Health Organization international expert. The former official, Dr. Robert Redfield emphasized that it was his opinion.