"Dr. Scott Atlas is arming Trump with misleading data" about COVID-19, Centers for Disease Control Director Dr. Robert Redfield told a colleague Friday, according to a Monday report by NBC News political reporter Monica Alba.
In an interview, Atlas said the constant media characterization of President Trump's coronavirus response as detached from scientific expertise is "Completely false." He said the president's policies are informed by infectious disease experts from the world's top medical and research institutions, including Bhattacharya and John Ioannidis of Stanford University Medical Center, Martin Kulldorff and Katherine Yih of Harvard Medical School, and Sunetra Gupta and Carl Heneghan of Oxford University.
Atlas is known for pushing back on coronavirus panic with scientific evidence, including in his view that quarantines should target the vulnerable and infected rather than the healthy, the historic norm.
"The president knows that expert opinion can vary and he knows there is no monopoly of expertise among public health officials - in fact, it's the opposite," Atlas said Monday.
CDC Director Redfield swings and misses in this hit piece on COVID-19 task force member, Dr. Scott Atlas.
The article also may reveal what prompted Redfield's phone call torching Atlas: "On Wednesday, Atlas stood at the White House press room podium and contradicted Redfield's sworn testimony that about 90 percent of Americans remain vulnerable to the coronavirus. Pressed by reporters about whom Americans should believe - the CDC director or him - Atlas replied: 'You're supposed to believe the science and I'm telling you the science.'".
There have been "Gross failures by the faces of public health who are on media all the time," Atlas said.
Tuesday, September 29, 2020
Media Aims For Scott Atlas Because He Keeps Exposing Coronavirus Lies
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