Meet Dr. Scott Atlas, who has effectively replaced Dr. Anthony Fauci as the chief science advisor to the White House’s #Coronavirus Task Force. forbes.com/sites/mattpere…
Dr. Atlas is unqualified for the job, has no background in epidemiology as a radiologist, and is pushing pandemic policies not backed by evidence. He is actively advocating for a “herd immunity” strategy that would needlessly endanger the lives of people. washingtonpost.com/politics/trump…
Scott Atlas even described “child to adult transmission” as “icing on the cake” during a recent school reopening tour in Florida.
According to the American Academy of Pediatrics, over 500k children have been diagnosed with #COVID19, representing 10% of all US cases. While children are often spared the worst symptoms, kids spreading the disease is no “icing on the cake”. nbcnews.com/health/health-…
In last August, Atlas pushed the CDC to publish a recommendation that people without COVID symptoms need not be tested, even if exposed to an infected person — a move that ignores the evidence that people without symptoms can be prolific spreaders. nytimes.com/2020/08/26/us/…
More than 70 professors at Stanford University’s medical school—including actual infectious disease experts—have called out the “falsehoods and misrepresentations of science” being espoused by their former colleague. abcnews.go.com/Politics/stanf…
The letter points out that "Failure to follow the science – or deliberately misrepresenting the science -- will lead to immense avoidable harm."
What’s more, Scott Atlas also has significant potential conflicts of interest with current and past ties to several pharmaceutical advisory boards, including at least one company (Sanofi) that is actively working on a #COVID19 vaccine. popular.info/p/the-corporat…
At a time when a majority of people in the US are demanding a science-based response to the pandemic, Scott Atlas is the wrong person to be advising the White House on its pandemic response strategy. blog.ucsusa.org/derrick-jackso…
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