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Dr. Deb­o­rah Birx warned on Sun­day that the esca­lat­ing coro­n­avirus surge is like­ly to be the most try­ing event in U.S. his­to­ry, as hos­pi­tal sys­tems around the coun­try strain to com­bat its mount­ing dai­ly death toll.“This is not just the worst pub­lic health event. This is the worst event that this coun­try will face, not just from a pub­lic health side,” Birx, the White House coro­n­avirus response coor­di­na­tor, said dur­ing a masked appear­ance on NBC’s “Meet the Press.“Birx’s com­ments add to a cho­rus of pub­lic health offi­cials express­ing con­cern about the grow­ing wave of infections.On Wednes­day, Cen­ters for Dis­ease Con­trol and Pre­ven­tion Direc­tor Dr. Robert Red­field said that the com­ing months will be “the most dif­fi­cult time in the pub­lic health his­to­ry of this nation.”“This …