Who is Dr. Scott Atlas? Trump's new Covid health adviser, seen as a counter to Fauci and Birx
After months of butting heads with his medical experts, including the government’s 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.... [+]
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 joinedcampaign for president in 2012 as a healthcare adviser. He had criticized Romney in 2007 over his healthcare plan while supporting New York Mayor Rudy Giuliani's bid for president.
During a Fox News appearance on Aug. 3 discussing college reopenings, Atlas echoed an argument often made by Trump that children"have no risk for serious illness" and"they're not significant spreaders," adding,"There should never be and there is no goal to stop college students from getting an infection they have no problem with."
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.
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