{"id":41301,"date":"2020-04-06T13:21:09","date_gmt":"2020-04-06T17:21:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/medicine\/?p=41301"},"modified":"2023-06-06T17:52:37","modified_gmt":"2023-06-06T21:52:37","slug":"cohen-comments-on-fauci-and-birx-as-national-covid-19-advisors","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/medicine\/news\/cohen-comments-on-fauci-and-birx-as-national-covid-19-advisors\/","title":{"rendered":"Cohen Comments On Fauci and Birx As National COVID-19 Advisors"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_30879\" class=\"thumbnail wp-caption alignright\" style=\"width: 310px\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-30879\" src=\"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/medicine\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/945\/2019\/04\/MikeCohenNAMheadshotsJCL201-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"MikeCohenNAMheadshotsJCL201.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" \/><figcaption class=\"caption wp-caption-text\"><span class=\"discreet\">Myron Cohen, MD<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/medicine\/directory\/myron-cohen-md\/\">Myron Cohen<\/a>, MD, professor of medicine in the division of infectious diseases, has known NIH Director <a href=\"https:\/\/www.niaid.nih.gov\/about\/director\">Anthony S. Fauci<\/a>, MD, and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.state.gov\/biographies\/deborah-l-birx-md\/\">Deborah Birx<\/a>, MD, the White House Coronavirus Response Coordinator, since the 1980s, he told the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/politics\/fauci-and-birx-worked-together-at-the-dawn-of-the-aids-crisis-thirty-seven-years-later-they-are-partners-in-fighting-the-coronavirus\/2020\/04\/03\/d10980d8-7425-11ea-ae50-7148009252e3_story.html\">Washington Post<\/a> in a recent interview. Speaking on their partnership as scientists and public health officials, he emphasized that &#8220;the pair are too driven by science and data to be subject to political pressure.&#8221; Find the article <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/politics\/fauci-and-birx-worked-together-at-the-dawn-of-the-aids-crisis-thirty-seven-years-later-they-are-partners-in-fighting-the-coronavirus\/2020\/04\/03\/d10980d8-7425-11ea-ae50-7148009252e3_story.html\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Myron Cohen, MD, professor of medicine in the division of infectious diseases, has known NIH Director Anthony S. Fauci, MD, and Deborah Birx, MD, the White House Coronavirus Response Coordinator, since the 1980s, he told the Washington Post in a recent interview. Speaking on their partnership as scientists and public health officials, he emphasized that &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/medicine\/news\/cohen-comments-on-fauci-and-birx-as-national-covid-19-advisors\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about Cohen Comments On Fauci and Birx As National COVID-19 Advisors\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":69419,"featured_media":30879,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"layout":"","cellInformation":"","apiCallInformation":"","footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[100,2],"tags":[629],"class_list":["post-41301","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-infectious-diseases","category-news","tag-629","odd"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v26.8 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Cohen Comments On Fauci and Birx As National COVID-19 Advisors | Department of Medicine<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/medicine\/news\/cohen-comments-on-fauci-and-birx-as-national-covid-19-advisors\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Cohen Comments On Fauci and Birx As National COVID-19 Advisors | Department of Medicine\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Myron Cohen, MD, professor of medicine in the division of infectious diseases, has known NIH Director Anthony S. 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