CNN chief White House correspondent Jim Acosta was widely blasted for interrupting Dr. Deborah Birx during Friday's coronavirus briefing to attack President Trump.
Birx took a moment at the podium to address the "who knew what when" concerns and said all the countries affected by the pandemic can "look back" to develop a timeline but not while "in the middle" of the crisis.
"We can talk about why didn't Italy do something or Spain do something or Germany do something, or we can really say right now -- we all can do something," Dr. Birx explained. "We can do the social distancing and all of the pieces that we know is starting to work around the globe in country after country. And then when we get through all of this, we can ask the questions about could we have done some piece of this better as a global community."
She then pivoted to the apparent errors the World Health Organization (WHO) made leading up to the outbreak in the U. S. as something that should be examined.
"I will remind you that on February 3rd, the head of the WHO said there was no reason to ever do a travel ban," Dr. Birx continued. "It wasn't until January 14th that we knew that there was human-to-human transmission,"
Acosta quickly derailed her observations about WHO to knock President Trump.
"Dr. Birx, the president was saying this was going to go away," Acosta said. "It's April."
"It is going to go away," President Trump fired back. "I said it was going away and it is going away."
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