Dr. Deborah Birx was discussing global mortality rates at one of the near-daily White House Coronavirus Task Force press briefings alongside a curious chart. China’s numbers had a big asterisk next to them. President Trump interjected, pointing to China’s position at the bottom of the chart. “Excuse me, does anybody really believe this number?” Trump asked. Birx said Trump was right to distrust China’s figures. “I put China on there so you could see how basically unrealistic this could be,” Birx said, adding, "That’s why we keep coming back to how important in a pandemic, in a new disease, it’s really critical to have that level of transparency, because it changes how we work as a nation.” Birx emphasized that “when you are the first country to have an outbreak, you really have a moral...