White House Task Force Member: ‘We Were Missing a Significant Amount of Data’ From China

Response coordinator for White House Coronavirus Task Force Deborah Birx speaks as Vice President Mike Pence listens during the daily briefing on the CCP virus in the Brady Briefing Room at the White House in Washington on March 31, 2020. Mandel Ngan/AFP via Getty Images

A member of the White House Coronavirus Task Force said people making models trying to project the CCP virus pandemic were missing data from China early in the outbreak.

The CCP (Chinese Communist Party) virus, commonly known as the novel coronavirus, which causes the COVID-19 disease, emerged in China last year.