On CNN, Birx escalates rules for personal behavior:

1) “If you’re in multi-generational households and there’s an outbreak in your [area], you need to really consider wearing a mask at home.”

2) If you vacation in a hotspot, you "need to come back [and] assume you’re infected.”

Birx warns rural residents: “What we’re seeing today is different from March and April." The virus is now "into the rural" areas, too. "You are not immune or protected from this virus … No matter where you live in America, you need to wear a mask and socially distance.” @CNNSotu

On reopening schools, Birx defends online instruction: “If you have high case load and active community spread … we’re asking people to distance-learn at this moment, so we can get this epidemic under control.”

When asked to project the death toll, Birx repeats that models depend on behavior. "It depends completely" on states "maintaining and accelerating their mitigation efforts," she says. "Put on more mitigation controls and stop it before you see these increased cases in hospitals."