Atlas has refused to be silenced. And he is countering Fauci., White House sources told CNN that Dr. Atlas had been informally advising Trump for many weeks after Trump saw him speaking on Fox News, echoing the Presidents position on school reopening and general skepticism toward the pandemic and the presidents medical experts. Her writings appear in other national media, including The Wall Street Journal and Fox News. Throughout our over one-hundred-year history, our work has directly led to policies that have produced greater freedom, democracy, and opportunity in the United States and the world. 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. All rights reserved. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci), Atlas told Fox News he told the committee that the policies he advised of were "increases in targeted protection to stop people from dying, to safely open schools and society so that the harms of lockdowns would end. (Photo by Brendan Smialowski / AFP) (Photo by BRENDAN SMIALOWSKI/AFP via Getty Images). You can reach her at Brooke.Singman@Fox.com or @BrookeSingman on Twitter. Market data provided by Factset. (Aug. 11) Subscribe for more Breaking News: smarturl.it/AssociatedPress Website: apnews.com Twitter: twitter.com/AP Facebook: facebook.com/APNews Google+: plus.google.com/115892241801867723374 Instagram: instagram.com/APNews/ You can license this, according to the Christian Science Monitor, release at Physicians for a National Health Program, Sean Feucht: Worship Leader Holds Portland Gathering to Protest Masks. Atlas was at odds with top health officials like Dr. Anthony Fauci, Dr. Deborah Birx and former Centers for Disease Control and Prevention Director Dr. Robert Redfield throughout his time as Trump's COVID adviser. If you dont do that, youre not prioritizing the children at all.. If you allow this virus to spread, we are looking at 2 to 6 million Americans dead. The Bangladesh economys shutdown during the pandemic, Atlas noted, was forecast to wipe out about $3 billion and close to 900,000 jobs off the nations economy with a devastating effect on the nations poor. Hoover scholars form the Institutions core and create breakthrough ideas aligned with our mission and ideals. or redistributed. It also advocates fully reopening restaurants and other businesses, as well as all cultural activities. The policies have created the greatest global economic disruption in history, with trillions of dollars of lost economic output. Tucker: You had essentially the entire Administrative state. Dale Rosengarten, associate director of the Pearlstine/Lipov Center for Southern Jewish Culture, is the founding director of the Jewish Heritage Collection at the College of Charleston Library. Science is only about data and the scientific process. Furthermore, they point out that Dr. Atlas claims regarding treatments for strokes and cancer screenings have been exaggerated and misrepresented for political purposes. People: Scott W. Atlas Type : Independent Truths with Dr. Scott Atlas Issues : Civil Liberties and Human Rights , Contemporary Politics , COVID-19 , Freedom , Government and Politics , Government Power , Health and Healthcare , Law and Liberty , Philosophy and Religion , Universal Healthcare Former White House coronavirus task force member Dr. Scott Atlas critiqued Dr. Deborah Birxs testimony before congressional lawmakers Tuesday as an Orwellian attempt to rewrite history. "It has been known for almostmore than a year and a half now that the virus spreads regardless of these lockdown policies," Atlas said. Pinch me. And on May 25, Atlas co-authored an opinion piece in the Hill criticizing the lockdown as an overreaction, despite being well-intentioned.. Dr Scott W. Atlas is the Robert Wesson Senior Fellow in health care policy at the Hoover Institute of Stanford University and a fellow at Hillsdale Colleges Academy for Blaze host Steve Deace called Atlas our Obi-Wan Kenobi and our only hope.. Trump said he knew nothing about the identity or motives of the person shot, but when asked if the person had been armed, answered: "From what I understand, the answer is yes." 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. They have no credibility whatsoever when they get up and say, follow the science. Its clear many of them dont know the science, dont understand the science, and they are not using the science to make the recommendations., How can science and scientists recover from this trust deficit? Minutes later, Trump reappeared at the press conference, where journalists had been locked in, and announced that someone had been shot outside the White House grounds. 4 0 obj - Secret Service guards shot a person, who was apparently armed, outside the White House on Monday, President Donald Trump said just after being briefly evacuated in the middle of a press conference. In an email to his colleagues, Ioannidis wrote, I think our ideas have infiltrated the White House. Without testing their ideas and in complete disregard for the growing catastrophe developing in Europe and New York, these scientists allowed the social interests of big business and the Trump administration to override their scientific principles. Just as dangerous as the disease may be quarantine-related spikes in mental illness, substance abuse, child and spousal abuse, and depression from lost livelihoods. Am I dreaming? reporter Scott Morefield, of The Daily Caller and Townhall.com, tweeted. Every reputable physician and infectious disease specialist has opposed herd immunity and called a massive public infrastructure program of testing, tracing and isolation to counter the pandemic. In a few easy steps create an account and receive the most recent analysis from Hoover fellows tailored to your specific policy interests. << /Length 5 0 R /Filter /FlateDecode >> While researchers are still studying the effects of the virus on children, a study published in JAMA Pediatrics in July found children carry as much or more of the infection in their noses and throats compared to adults, while a Centers for Disease Control and Prevention contact tracing study found young people between ages 10 and 19 years old are more likely to spread the coronavirus in households, where other family members may be more susceptible to severe symptoms. Adopting the declarations proposals, she said, would require keeping that 40 percent of the population (131.3 million Americans) away from the 60 percent of people (209 million Americans) in the lower risk categories. Would love your thoughts, please comment. He received his MD degree from the University of Chicago School of Medicine. From July to December, 2020, he served as a Special Advisor to the President and a member of the White House Coronavirus Task Force. 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. Surrounded by the worlds largest tech firms, Google, Apple, and Facebook, firms created for the most part by former students, it has given birth to Silicon Valleyhome to 74 billionaires. %PDF-1.3 Getty/ Brendan Smialowski MyHoover delivers a personalized experience atHoover.org. "It is contrary to medical science to say something like that because you cannot defeat the virus," Atlas said. 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. a&7=)Cng# Ube4~t,{Ksq,ycnFlzJH.?uueyZ9m6)C5#RP+s !Y`7,53H#wSz=Qrx@D\3AO W^!ANCeVI&GvR.DBJ~Buo>,o`az-5Po _ v I^]u/96$P/SZWU_? At Tuesday's White Hosue Dr. Anthony Fauci said people who are vaccinated are not going to be able to participate in "indoor dining, theaters, places where people congregate" at Monday's White House COVID update: "So there are things, even if youre vaccinated, that youre not going to be able to do in society: for Dr. Scott Atlas, former member of the Trump COVID response team, said Americans need to ask what the "endpoint" is with the various COVID restrictions. He is also the editor of "Magnetic Resonance Imaging of the Brain and Spine" the leading textbook in the field, translated into several languages, and now in its 5th edition. Legal Statement. Last Friday and Saturday, the United States set a new record, nearly 84,000 new cases of covid-19 reported each day, far surpassing the previous record of 77,363 cases that was reached on July 16. He had criticized Romney in 2007 over his healthcare plan while supporting New York Mayor Rudy Giuliani's bid for president. There is no such thing as science without the evidence being visible and debates being current. A Stanford University epidemiologist, Yvonne Maldonado, noted that 40 percent of Americans have an elevated risk of dying from of covid-19. In the private sector, Atlas is a frequent advisor to start-up entrepreneurs and companies in life sciences and medical technology. His book, A Plague Upon Our House, is an important and earnest account of his experience during that brief but critical time. Located on the campus of Stanford University and in Washington, DC, the Hoover Institution is the nations preeminent research center dedicated to generating policy ideas that promote economic prosperity, national security, and democratic governance. Instead, we should offer targeted protections for high-risk people but no lockdowns of low-risk people. On the other hand, Trump is so blinded by the false science that he is oblivious to what even a real idiot should be able to see. Science is not supposed to have a view. 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. "They become less lethal. Fauci for his part has endorsed in-person instruction if a county has the virus under control and puts in place safety measures. 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.. The statement submitted by Ioannidis cautioned the president against shutting down the country for a very long time and jeopardizing so many lives in doing this. However, these recommendations were based on little more than intuition and inflated scientific credentials. Elections, Black History Month Is Lackluster When Elites Obsess Over Race All Year Long. But most importantly, Atlas has warned that government must be careful not to endanger Americans with draconian lockdowns that curtail needed medical examinations, procedures and treatments. They must stop, Atlas said. WebAn icon used to represent a menu that can be toggled by interacting with this icon. The children are not at risk at all, and we absolutely must re-open the schools, he added. Our project had three co-directors, six visiting faculty, and eight additional presenters. 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). The Great Barrington Declaration is so-called because it was drafted at the American Institute for Economic Research in Great Barrington, Mass., in early October. It attacks old people, especially old people with bad hearts and diabetes., At an Aug. 11 White House coronavirus press briefing, Trump reiterated the point, also adding, Hopefully a lot of great people are going to be out there playing football, and theyre going to be able to fight it off, and most of them will never get it, statistically, he said. "And this reinforces the misconception that we can eradicate the virus by these various mitigation measures, and thats not how biology works. ", Trump brought in Atlas as an adviser after repeatedly contradicting the advice of the lead healthcare experts on the administration's coronavirus task force. "The Biden administrations problem is they continued this sort of irrational, erratic policy of denying what we know which is that the virus is going to spread regardless of the shutdowns. Atlas is closely connected with Dr. John Ioannidis, Professor of Medicine, Health Research and Policy, and of Biomedical Data Science at Stanford University School of Medicine, whose attempt to play an advisory role in Trumps administration COVID-19 response, discussed below, cannot be understated. He also cited Dr. Scott Atlas as an excellent candidate given his years of policy work in support of Republican politicians, including Rudy Giuliani, as well as numerous articles citing his opposition to socialized medicine. We discovered that scientists are fallible human beings, and some would let personal interests and political views cloud their judgment. and Ph.D. from Harvard University. He argued that it would be prudent to recruit dissenting medical, scientific, and epidemiological experts from outside the federal institutions. A senior fellow at Stanford University's Hoover Institution, a conservative think tank, Atlas is not an infectious disease expert hes board-certified in diagnostic radiology, which means he specializes in reading and interpreting imaging like X-rays, CT scans and MRIs, and he served as a professor and chief of neuroradiology at Stanford University Medical Center from 1998 to 2012. Dr. Scott Atlas is the newest addition to the White House coronavirus task force and one who agrees with many of President Donald Trumps views, including the need to open all schools nationally this fall. ", SCALISE SAYS GOP MEMO ON CLOSED-DOOR BIRX TESTIMONY CONFIRMS WORLD WAS 'MISLED' ON COVID. AT THE END OF THE 15 DAY PERIOD, WE WILL MAKE A DECISION AS TO WHICH WAY WE WANT TO GO! He has become a national expert on public health policy, especially in the cost-benefit analysis of government programs. Stanfords Dr. Scott Atlas finally working with @realDonaldTrump on coronavirus response. 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. These experts, led by Anthony Fauci of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Disease, relied on early epidemiological models to craft their policies for quarantining everyone instead of the sick and vulnerable. "Scott is a very famous man whos also very highly respected," Trump said on Monday. Former Clinton adviser Naomi Wolf warned that the U.S. is becoming a "totalitarian state before our eyes" Monday evening on FOX News Channel's "Tucker Carlson Tonight." In giving way to these experts, Trump and other politicians have tacitly accepted science as a source of authority to the exclusion of science as a deliberative process of testing and evaluationone that requires the constant refining of models and theories and argument between scientists about how to interpret evidence.. Scott Morefield (@SKMorefield) August 10, 2020. (See Leviticus 19:16.). 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. All rights reserved. His medical credentials will now allow Trump to align his policy with medical advice.. 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. A historian of American Judaism, she earned a PhD in religious studies from Yale University in 2015. "Why is it, FOX News White House correspondent Peter Doocy took on White House press secretary Jen Psaki for previous comments made by President Joe Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris on housing minor migrants that show up unaccompanied by an adult at the U.S.-Mexico border. 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. Atlas is a fellow at the Hoover Institute a Stanford University think tank founded in 1939 by President Herbert Hoover to fight counter communist influence in the world, according to the Christian Science Monitor. Meyer wrote in the Federalist, Since the COVID-19 outbreak, President Trump has relied on a small group of scientists within the federal health establishment. Science has been not just a victim, he told me, but actively participated in the self-destruction of its credibility.. Pathetic!". Political commentator and YouTube host Jimmy Dore appeared on Tucker Carlson on Wednesday and said the nation's leaders want to keep people divided and the country in chaos with incompetent COVID handling to prevent Americans from noticing that the United States is a "failed state." A July survey by the CDC found that 35% of those interviewed had not returned to normal health two-to-three weeks after testing positive for Covid-19, and among people aged 18-to-34 with no chronic medical conditions, one in five hadn't returned to their usual state of health. % She's a senior contributor at The Federalist. 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. Other scientists, such as the authors of The Great Barrington Declaration, have advocated for the same approach. t^":S'$!aU&4 StneI~K.E4z%sh-C0JA|LRXMsCk_Nt1BKfx4Au '0Cd7Bg$hkmNB63ZMx1w$d)(_k+kH_ 3= VNPLfFf7s!l'g~HJu|mG,Qd.qpY9/ABom+KkkB-A;rX7ela __N~.II$SK5cc9SVnH[3\K0;vtF\,>ZQ^^b|~&H,|w|CJ;k9zg0 Dr. Atlas, who has been busy making the media circuit among conservative outlets, always prefaces his comments with remarks about strictly adhering to science Further, they argued that suicide and drug abuse numbers would rise and people would die because they forewent non virus-related medical treatment. Atlas asked. Dr. Jmy%JH2%>ekq/M+VrSWW$K|hj8kmNWUUc+'ONLOz>K /)T JSxQ1.fD'qu/DR&KSU3,NgN)!Zd-H7vUK}1Jj6#x ;cP=+mW=Nf o`m2*7]wM5w?/MwLX(4$6{#N;7~ 37*2$? 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. The president was abruptly ushered out of the press event and black-clad secret service agents with automatic rifles rushed across the lawn north of the White House. Not to mince words, ultra-right talkshow host Rush Limbaugh said last week, Scott Atlas is now part of the coronavirus task force meeting with the President. Despite the high concentration of community transmission that has seen more than 50,000 new cases and over 1,000 deaths daily, the Trump administration falsely insists it is vital for the welfare of children to reopen schools and allow millions of students and teachers to face the consequences of the pandemic, a reckless policy supported by both the Democrats and Republicans. Besides causing health issues, the lockdowns have enormous economic costs, especially for poor people and developing countries. You've successfully subscribed to this newsletter! College athletes couldnt get a better and safer environment during the pandemic, he said. The numbers are incrediblebut only for what it says about Trump and his handling of the pandemic. Fauci: Even If You're Vaccinated, You Won't "Be Able" To Do Indoor Dining, Go "Places Where People Congregate". ", 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. Additionally, while the risk is lower, young people can still die to Covid-19. His accounts of working in DC are shocking and enlightening for readers skeptical about federal suggestions on combating the pandemic. According to Scott Atlas, the most controversial member of the White House Coronavirus Task Force and the one most trusted by Trumphe is a neuroradiologist, with no experience in epidemiologythe Barrington Declaration matches the policy of the president.. University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, retired National Park Service interpreter and community historian, Intern M.Ed. We have to recognize what the data revealed about this current pandemic, Atlas said, citing several recent studies (including one by Eran Bendavid and other scientists of Stanford University) showing that lockdowns didnt work to keep COVID-19 from spreading while imposing their own severe additional costs. Yet the much-praised Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, director-general of the World Health Organization, has demonstrably weakened the effort to fight COVID-19. She is the author of Jews on the Frontier: Religion and Mobility in Nineteenth Minutes later, Trump reappeared at the press conference, where journalists had been locked in, and announced that someone had been shot outside the White House grounds. All aspects of social life have been subordinated to keeping the financial markets afloat. ", "So, the question is, are we going to, as a society, somehow abandon rational thinking and panic?" Dr. Scott Atlas, Senior Fellow in Health Policy at Stanfords highly acclaimed Hoover Institute, former professor and Chief of Neuroradiology at Stanford University Medical Center, Founding Fellow of Hillsdale Colleges Academy for Science and Freedom in Washington, D.C., is one such hero, as he sounded the alarm over the nations disastrous No reporters have questioned his epidemiological expertise despite his background as an oncologist specializing in breast cancer. Shari Rabin was assistant professor of Jewish studies in theYaschik/Arnold Jewish Studies Program and director of the Pearlstine/Lipov Center for Southern Jewish Cultureuntil summer 2019, when she became assistant professor of Jewish studies and religion at Oberlin College. 2023 FOX News Network, LLC. Sxd/e)qn{No%MEQC XJxU WebBy BY JOHN KOBLIN from NYT Business https://ift.tt/3cev7lA When more scientists come forward, there hopefully will be a reversal of that [trust deficit]. Powered by. However, much is still unknown about the long-term effects of the virus. Member of the coronavirus task force Scott Atlas listens to US President Donald Trump during a [+] briefing at the White House August 10, 2020, in Washington, DC. 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. 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. Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) March 23, 2020. Charleston, South Carolina 29424. Victor Davis Hanson is the Martin and Illie Anderson Senior Fellow at the Hoover Institution and the author, most recently, of The Case for Trump. Atlas has refused to be silenced. He admitted that top authorities played politics with this global pandemic. 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. It says nothing about wearing masks or social distancing or contact tracing, and nothing about testing outside of nursing homes. Before his appointment at Hoover Institution, he was Professor and Chief of Neuroradiology at Stanford University Medical Center for 14 years. 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