CDC Director Redfield reportedly fed up with new Trump favorite Atlas: ‘Everything he says is false’ – By Hunter (Daily Kos) / Sept 28 2020
Last week White House coronavirus task force member Dr. Deborah Birx let it be publicly leaked that she was “distressed” over the growing influence of new task force member Dr. Scott Atlas, a blustering Fox-promoted neuroradiologist with no infectious disease experience but a bevy of not-expert opinions that just happen to match up with Trump’s own desire to simply ignore the pandemic and see what happens. Specifically, Birx and other experts are worried about Atlas’ dismissals of social distancing and masks both, and his theories that those things are just “prolonging the problem” by “preventing population immunity.”
Not to worry, assured an Anonymous Administration Official: Atlas is just bringing “fresh eyes” to the pandemic. It’s not like he’s going to kill us all.
Team That Guy Is Probably Going To Kill Us All now appears to have another high-profile member. NBC News is reporting that in an overheard phone conversation on a commercial airline flight, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention Dr. Robert Redfield groused to an unknown ally about the Scott Atlas problem. NBC says Redfield suggested Atlas “is arming Trump with misleading data about a range of issues, including questioning the efficacy of masks, whether young people are susceptible to the virus and the benefits of herd immunity.”
“Everything he says is false,” Redfield complained to his unknown “colleague.”
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