Dr. Deborah Birx, coordinator of the White House Task Force on coronavirus, offered a critique of how media outlets have covered the pandemic.
"I think we have to be responsible about our headlines," Birx said Saturday on Fox News. "I think often, the reporting may be accurate in paragraph three, four, and five. But I’m not sure how many people actually get to paragraph three, four, and five."
She said the press should do a better job of making sure the data she and other members of the task force present on a regular basis is featured more prominently in news reports.
"I think the responsibility that the press has is to make sure the headlines reflect the science and data that is in their piece itself," she said after explaining that the press has been "very slicey and dicey about how they put sentences together in order to create headlines."
Birx further stressed her point on Sunday morning, arguing that recent comments President Trump made about injecting disinfectant to fight the virus have been covered by the media too much.
"I think it bothers me that this is still in the news cycle," Birx said on CNN's State of the Union, later adding, "sometimes I worry that we don’t get the information to the American people that they need when we continue to bring up something that was from Thursday night."
The president has also been critical of how his administration's response to the coronavirus has been covered despite giving the press credit for "some fair coverage."