Birx (I won't call her Dr., she's forfeited that title) is playing along w/ Trump's con game...

Emphasizing a dire forecast curve that is more like the face of El Capitan, so that when it ends up being terribly bad, Trump will gloat in triumph. When the dust settles, the graphs that matter will be U.S. versus other nations. That will tell the story of Trump's deadly failures. Pulling scary raw numbers out of your ass is a pure propaganda technique, and she is a propagandist.