\"If they go home and infect their grandmother or their grandfather who has a comorbid condition and they have a serious or a very -- or an unfortunate outcome, they will feel guilty for the rest of our lives,\" Birx told Fox. \"We need to protect each other at the same time we’re voicing our discontent.\"
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PHOTO: Response coordinator for White House Coronavirus Task Force Deborah Birx speaks as President Donald Trump listens during the daily briefing on the novel coronavirus in the Brady Briefing Room of the White House in Washington, April 21, 2020.
While the president has said he hopes his mega rallies return \"very soon\" and pushes for normalcy by the Fourth of July, if not before, Birx and Fauci have emphasized the need to continue practicing social distancing throughout the summer.
Despite the doctors' warnings that states should open gradually, the influential IHME model from the University of Washington has revealed that most states, if not all, initiating a reopening this week do not meet the White House's own \"gating criteria\" in its guidelines for reopening -- the president says the onus is on governors to keep outbreaks under control.
\"We can't keep our country closed for the next five years. You can say there will be a recurrence and there might be, you know, some doctors, most doctors will say that will happen, and it'll be a flame and we're going to put out the flame,\" Trump said Tuesday.
Fauci has not been as delicate as Birx in speaking of the federal government's response. The outspoken doctor, having held his post as director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases for more 40 years, has demanded more from the administration -- including himself.
\"Shame on us if we don't have enough tests by the time this so-called return might occur in the fall and winter,\" Fauci told National Geographic in an article published Monday. \"I don't think there's a chance that this virus is just going to disappear,\" though the president has claimed the exact opposite.
\"When you see somebody in an environment in which the infections are not going down, and then you see 30 to 40 people on a beach with no mask,\" Fauci said, \"well that's very nice to have fun in the sun, but you're really putting yourself and everyone at risk for creating an even bigger spike in infections.\"
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PHOTO: President Donald Trump looks on during the daily briefing of the coronavirus task force in the Rose Garden at the White House on April 27, 2020, in Washington.
The task force also has a meeting scheduled for 4 p.m. Wednesday, but notably, that's the same time as the new White House press secretary Kayleigh McEnany's briefing.
If Fauci and Birx are at meeting with the task force at the same time, they can't show up in the White House briefing room.
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PHOTO: White House press secretary Kayleigh McEnany arrives to speak during a press briefing at the White House, May 1, 2020, in Washington.
ABC News' Ben Gittleson, Jordyn Phelps, Katherine Faulders, Elizabeth Thomas and Cheyenne Haslett contributed to this report.
What to know about the coronavirus:
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