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Dr Scott Atlas: Trump's controversial coronavirus adviser, resigns

[서울=아시아뉴스통신] 레악카나기자 송고시간 2020-12-02 03:10

In his resignation letter, carried by Fox, he said his advice had "always focused on minimizing all the harms from both the pandemic and the structural policies themselves, especially to the working class and poor". (File photo by=Reuters)

[Asia News Communication = Reporter Reakkana] US President Donald Trump's controversial special adviser on the coronavirus, Scott Atlas, has resigned. Thanking Mr. Trump for the honor of serving the American people, Dr. Atlas said he had "always relied on the latest science and evidence without any political consideration or influence".

During his four months in the role, Dr. Atlas questioned the need for masks and other measures to control the pandemic. He also repeatedly clashed with other members of the coronavirus task force. The radiologist and senior fellow at Stanford University's conservative Hoover Institution joined the task force in August. As well as questioning the usefulness of masks he was against lockdowns and supported herd immunity as a strategy to deal with the outbreak.

Public health officials - including top infectious diseases expert Anthony Fauci - had accused Dr. Atlas of giving President Trump misleading information about the spread of the virus. After Dr. Atlas' resignation, Dr. Fauci told the BBC that the current situation in the US was worse than at any time since the start of the outbreak. "The slope of our curve is very steep so that every day it seems we almost break a new record," he said.' Academics at Stanford University welcomed Dr. Atlas's resignation, saying it was "long overdue and underscores the triumph of science and truth over falsehoods and misinformation". 



 

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