24 Quotes by Deborah Birx

I think we'll come to both bringing America together and learning how to interact with each other in a different way that maintains social distancing and that we care.

A company like Nike can convince people to buy Air Jordans even though they never saw Michael Jordan play.

I don't really expect anything from anyone else that I wouldn't do myself.

I just want to recognize, the HIV epidemic was solved by the community, the HIV advocates and activists who stood up when no one was listening and got everyone's attention.

We want combination solutions at the state level, at the local level - whether we've learned from the Chinese about creating what we've been calling COVID wards - creating the ability to actually care for larger numbers of clients and patients in a more concentrated way which allows more oversights so we could really track patients.

But what has been pretty good about the coronaviruses in general is they keep their structural pieces very similar. What do I mean by that? There's certain - the outer coat, the envelope, and the inside part of the virus has stayed very constant.

When you're trained in medicine and it's the '80s and you've got all this hi-tech stuff and this ability to diagnose everything, when you not only couldn't make a diagnosis, you didn't know what the problem was, and you didn't know how to treat it, it was devastating.

I want to be incredibly clear: The United States stands for a public health approach to the HIV/AIDS pandemic.

Every day we go over data and use science and data to drive policy and decision-making.