An influential model that projects 410,000 deaths by January 1 “is ridiculous in many ways,” White House coronavirus adviser Dr. Scott Atlas tells smerconish. The model has been accurate, with actual numbers higher, over the past few months, CNN found.
Dr. Scott Atlas, the controversial newest addition to the White House Coronavirus Task Force, says he is a"straight shooter." He proceeded to demonstrate that in a lengthy and wide-ranging interview with BBC Radio Friday.
Atlas, a neuroradiologist who wrote a book on magnetic resonance imaging, said it doesn't matter that he has no expertise in epidemiology or infectious diseases; he accused public health experts of ignoring data; said the US was doing better compared to Europe in terms of coronavirus deaths and claimed -- incorrectly -- that the case fatality rate in the US is down by more than 90%.
New COVID adviser denies advocating for herd immunity 06:10Atlas said people have questioned whether he is qualified to advise about coronavirus when his expertise is in neuroradiology."You know I have to laugh at that because there's a lot of things I'm not, but that's not why I was asked to be in here," Atlas said.Atlas said"it's sort of silly" to think"there's some kind of reason that I would need to be a virologist or an immunologist.
"In that role in my medical career, I specifically was integrating a lot of information from other medical subspecialists, also at the highest levels in these academic medical centers - that's what people like me do," he added. "They come to me with all of their information, and then I help them decide - using deductive reasoning and the rest of the medical science that we have - what's going on with the patient, what is the management strategy here," Atlas told BBC.
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