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Birx reveals she received a ‘very uncomfortable’ phone call from Trump after giving interview warning of severity of pandemic
Of all the doctors CNN’s chief medical correspondent Sanjay Gupta interviewed for the network’s upcoming documentary COVID War: The Pandemic Doctors Speak Out, which will air Sunday at 9 p.m. ET, Dr. Deborah Birx, the former White House coronavirus response coordinator, was “perhaps the most” introspective, he said. In one of the clips CNN shared ahead of the airing, Birx said she believes the majority of coronavirus deaths after the initial surge in the United States could have been prevented. In another excerpt, discussed by Gupta and Dana Bash on Sunday’s edition of State of the Union, Birx is seen telling Gupta that she knew she was “being watched” during her time in the Trump administration, noting that everyone “was waiting for me to make a…