SCOTT ATLAS DEFENDS COVID WORK, SLAMS DEBORAH BIRX TESTIMONY AS 'ORWELLIAN ATTEMPT TO REWRITE HISTORY', "What the facts are is that I was asked by the president to help during the biggest health care crisis in a century and the reason I would, and the reason I said yes, is because the policies of Dr. Birx and Dr. Fauci were failures," Atlas told Fox News. ", He added: "So I said, of course, yes, asa health policy expert for the past decade and a with an extensive background in medical science and in solving complex, complicated medical issues with the appropriate policies, I said yes. Baltimore Jewish Life | Dr. Scott Atlas Decries Ludicrous Market data provided by Factset. Tucker discusses much of Dr. Birx and her dishonest and potentially criminal actions and her arch enemy Dr. Scott Atlas who many agree saved the world. He is also the Robert Wesson Senior Fellow in the Hoover Institution at Stanford University, Co-Director of the Global Liberty Institute, and Senior Scholar and Founding Fellow Academy for Science & Freedom at President Trump is so taken by the false science implicit in herd immunity and the Barrington Declaration that he attacks anyone who disagrees with it. << /Length 5 0 R /Filter /FlateDecode >> Atlas has had a distinguished career as one of world's top neuroradiologists. "And this reinforces the misconception that we can eradicate the virus by these various mitigation measures, and thats not how biology works. Please note that the posts on The Blogs are contributed by third parties. On Tuesday, Florida reported that more residents ages 25-to-44 died in July than in the previous four months, and there were more fatalities for people under 65 than those over 90. "It is contrary to medical science to say something like that because you cannot defeat the virus," Atlas said. Though the meeting never took place, shortly after receiving this letter at the end of March, Trump suddenly announced during one of his coronavirus task force briefs that he had set Easter as the date to reopen the country after the nation had just entered into lockdown. The numbers are incrediblebut only for what it says about Trump and his handling of the pandemic. A trained medical doctor who attended the University of Chicago, former chief of neuroradiology at Stanford University Medical Center from 1998 to 2012, Atlas is currently a senior fellow at the ultra-conservative Hoover Institution. He has not played down the dangers of COVID-19 but rather has reminded us to look at scientific data that often belies media sensationalism. They were extra deaths due to the lockdowns.. "wIngbYdb;CjKR~O7$-U@t+-V6qa;q_u]*.-}96M5r_?m?uPf} }l8k_aVCbVWu=@}9B"(W;Z]^\]iQUz^mzy 6/uZ m:r;I AC|C'1pIyXncUG;iBB%GOcvWM3! He falsely assured a complacent world that the virus was likely not transmissible between humans and did not warrant travel bans. Despite Ioannidis claim that the virus posed a low risk to the population, several studies published in the following two months indicated that the lockdowns were highly effective in halting the progress of the virus, preventing millions of infections and saving millions of lives. Mutual Fund and ETF data provided by Refinitiv Lipper. After months of butting heads with his medical experts, including the governments top infectious disease official, Dr. Anthony Fauci, President Trump introduced a new adviser to the administration during his coronavirus briefing on Monday, Dr. Scott Atlas, whose views on Covid-19 and school reopenings more closely match the president's. Its absolutely a national priority to educate our children, and there should be no doubt about that, Atlas said, reiterating that he believes children are unlikely to spread the virus to adults and teachers. or those who have not yet voted, and especially those who remain undecided, here are four things to keep in mind. Dr. Scott Atlas has supported Trumps policies on masks, opening the economy and calling for school reopening. While assembling a distinguished archives on southern Jewish history and culture, Dale has continued to pursue her other chief field of interest the African-American tradition of coiled basketry. Since the start of the COVID-19 pandemic, the American people have been told to follow the science. Yet for a year and a half, theyve heard contradicting messages from self-appointed prophets of the science like Dr. Anthony Fauci and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). These people are so powerful and so strong not lots of body fat, although you could take a couple of offensive linemen and dispute that they are very healthy people, Trump said. Our project had three co-directors, six visiting faculty, and eight additional presenters. Atlas has recently appeared as a guest on Trump's preferred news channel, Fox, calling on school districts and colleges to open their doors for in-person instruction and railing against the "frenzy" around mass testing. Conflicting information, guidance, competing egos, and what he says is a poor understanding of the science dominated the Covid task force, led by Dr. Anthony Fauci. Birx testified before the House Select Subcommittee on the Coronavirus Crisis in October, saying that officials in Trump's White House did not take steps to push mask-wearing, social distancing and other mitigation steps that could have prevented thousands of COVID-19 deaths. Anthony Fauci and Deborah Birx. Dr. Scott Atlas is the newest addition to the White House coronavirus task force, who agrees with many of President Trump's views, including the need to open all schools. Pathetic!". Trump declared: The gentlemen, this is Scott Atlas he is working with us and will be working with us on the coronavirus. The notion of herd immunity as proposed by the Great Barrington Declaration and as supported by President Trump and his non-expert Scott Atlas will lead to many more deaths if it becomes U.S. policyand it will become policy if Trump is re-elected. Am I dreaming? And on May 12, Atlas said in a Fox News appearance that politicians are being sort of medically naive themselves by investing in the bizarre notion of stopping [coronavirus] at all costs. He criticized the national lockdowns as an overreaction. From July to December, 2020, he served as a Special Advisor to the President and a member of the White House Coronavirus Task Force. Herd immunity, a concept typically described in the context of a vaccine, would require more than two-thirds of the population to be infected to confer a still undetermined immunity of uncertain duration. White House spokesman Judd Deere preemptively defended Atlas, a world renowned physician and scholar of advanced medical care and health care policy, and his place on the task force when CNN reached out to him. As Megan Ranney, an emergency-medicine physician at Brown University, told the Business Insider website, I think that the number of deaths that were going to experience this fall and winter is going to dwarf what weve already been through., Fauci, the director of the American National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases and leading member of the White House Coronavirus Task Force, was interviewed by the BBC on Friday as the July of covid-19 record was being shattered. Cohen is the author ofThe Birth of Conservative Judaism: Solomon Schechters Disciples and the Creation of anAmerican Religious MovementandCotton Capitalists: American Jewish Entrepreneurship in the Reconstruction Era. Dr. Atlas has received many awards and accolades from leading institutions and societies all over the world in recognition of his leadership in policy and medicine. Dr. Atlas weighs in, Biden extends 'national emergency' due to 'extraordinary threat' Russia's actions against Ukraine pose to US, House Republicans renew push to reimburse Texas for 'Operation Lone Star' border security push, West Virginia House approves pay raises for governor, other officials, West Virginia House passes bill to ban child marriage. Described on his Stanford bio as someone who "investigates the impact of government and the private sector" on healthcare and medical technology and innovation, Atlas joined Mitt Romney's campaign for president in 2012 as a healthcare adviser. The first three are herd immunity, the Great Barrington Declaration, and mass murder., Northern New Jerseys Jewish Voice Since 1931, Israel Unfiltered: The future of meeting up in person, We are more than a choir. Trump quickly signaled his strong disagreement. Dr. Scott Atlas at the Aug. 10 coronavirus press briefing at the White House. 51H\[M&puBpQ0j*{iSC"b!%t@!N3_@aXw. The one-page declaration proposes what it calls a Focused Protection approach to battling the pandemic. So I think that we just got to look that square in the eye and say its nonsense., William Haseltine, who founded Harvard Universitys cancer and HIV/AIDS research departments, was more direct in his assessment. Atlas has been a consistent voice downplaying the coronavirus pandemic, supporting the opening of all schools in the fall and insisting that citizens shouldnt panic over recent spikes in deaths. Calling the debate around reopening schools "irrational," Atlas said during his Fox appearance that "people are kidding themselves" if they believe testing is valuable and seemed to criticize the practice of quarantining asymptomatic carriers of the virus if they test positive, though studies have shown the virus can be spread by people not exhibiting symptoms. And if you talk to anybody who has any experience in epidemiology and infectious diseases, they will tell you that that is risky, and youll wind up with many more infections of vulnerable people, which will lead to hospitalizations and deaths. "And those policies literally killed people and destroyed families and have a massive psychological, destructive harm on the younger generation.". A BuzzFeed expose published on July 24 explains that during the initial phases of the outbreaks throughout the US, Dr. Ioannidis attempted to organize a meeting with the White House and bring an elite group of scientists to persuade Trump that locking the country down would pose serious dangers. He has become a national expert on public health policy, especially in the cost-benefit analysis of government programs. Further, they argued that suicide and drug abuse numbers would rise and people would die because they forewent non virus-related medical treatment. Scott Atlas, left of Trump, at a coronavirus press briefing on Aug. 10. Elections, Black History Month Is Lackluster When Elites Obsess Over Race All Year Long. ", "So, the question is, are we going to, as a society, somehow abandon rational thinking and panic?" The declaration advocates fully opening schools and universities for in-person teaching, despite the fact that there have been more than 214,000 cases reported in universities alone since last February, including 85 deaths. He has a lot to say about how the scientific field and Americans trust in it have been tremendously harmed during the COVID-19 pandemic. This is not out of control here, he said. The Stanford Daily has previously said that Atlas admonition to rise up against Democratic Michigan Governor Gretchen Whitmers lockdowns was a form of incitement. Science is not supposed to have a view. Accordingly, Atlas has urged the states to focus more resources on the most vulnerable -- those over 65, who account for the vast majority of COVID-19 deaths -- and allow younger Americans to re-enter schools and the workforce with appropriate caution. One of those invited to the meeting with Trump was Dr. David L. Katz who wrote an opinion piece on March 20, in the New York Times headlined, Is our fight against coronavirus worse than the disease? Katz was the expert cited by the reactionary Times columnist, Thomas Friedman who coined the slogan, the cure should not be worse than the disease. Dr. Katz, who has promoted the fraud science of homeopathy and energy medicine, endorsed the prospect of herd immunity and a precise surgical strikethe perspective that was the basis of the Swedish catastrophewhereby only the most vulnerable would be isolated and the young allowed to be exposed. He has a lot to say about how the scientific field and Americans trust in it have been tremendously harmed during the COVID-19 pandemic. The fourth thing is the most important from our perspective: what Jewish law has to say about the other three. All rights reserved. by the Board of Trustees of Leland Stanford Junior University. In one of his inflammatory statements from April, he said, In the absence of immunization, society needs circulation of the virus, assuming high-risk people can be isolated. This has been the essence of the herd immunity policy that has had disastrous consequences for the population of those countries adhering to them. These financial losses have been falsely portrayed as purely economic. Atlas has refused to be silenced. Dr. Atlas investigates the role of government and the private sector in health care quality and access, global trends in health care innovation, and the key economic and civil liberty issues related to health policy. His book, A Plague Upon Our House, is an important and earnest account of his experience during that brief but critical time. Do not intimidate or issue harsh condemnations of people just because you disagree with them. Atlas has shown that these policy choices unfortunately entail bad options and even worse ones, rather than good choices and even better alternatives. The United States, he said, is actually going in the wrong direction. The data, he said, speak for themselves., That data, according to Michael Osterholm, director of the Center for Infectious Disease Research and Policy at the University of Minnesota, shows that the deaths are going to go up precipitously in the next three to four weeks.. For Gods sake, he said, we cannot bend any of the rules, under any circumstances. Meanwhile,Atlas told Fox News thatPresident Bidens campaign promise to "defeat" COVID-19 was a "scientifically and medically incorrect" promise. Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) August 10, 2020. Trump told sportswriter Clay Travis canceling the season would be a tragic mistake, and that college athletes are better equipped to survive a bout with the virus than just about anyone, Alabama.com reported. 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