Americans Shouldn't Listen To Trump Covid Advisor Scott Atlas, Cautions Johns Hopkins Public Health Expert

Topline

After constantly landing himself in hot water for preventing Americans from following Covid-19 restrictions, public health professional Tom Inglesby urged the public not to listen to President Trump’s coronavirus consultant Scott Atlas.

President Trumps Holds Press Conference — Scott Atlas, senior fellow at Stanford University’s Hoover Institution, speaks as U.S. President … [+] Donald Trump listens throughout a press conference in the James S. Brady Press Rundown Room at the White House in Washington, D.C.

© 2020 Bloomberg Financing LP

Secret Truths

Atlas, who sits on the White House coronavirus taskforce, is a radiologist with no infectious diseases expertise who most just recently sparked debate by getting in touch with Michiganders to “rise up” versus new Covid-19 limitations enforced by the state’s governor following a rise in cases.

Reacting to a question from host Chris Wallace, Inglesby, the director of Johns Hopkins University’s Center for Health Security, told Fox News Sunday that Atlas is not a trusted source of pandemic-related info.

” There are a number of authorities from the U.S. federal government who have 30 years of experience getting ready for and reacting to transmittable illness outbreaks,” said Inglesby, pointing specifically to the nation’s leading transmittable diseases official, Dr. Anthony Fauci.

Secret Background

The Trump administration has actually looked for to silence professionals like Fauci whose views on how the U.S. should deal with the pandemic significantly differ from the president’s minimizing of the general public health crisis. After months of butting heads with leading medical professionals, Trump brought Atlas into the White Home in August. The coronavirus advisor has since outraged the medical neighborhood for some of his statements, including a tweet that questioned the value of face masks and claims that state-level lockdowns increased the number of Covis-19 infections.

Chief Critic

Stanford University, where Atlas is a senior fellow at the Hoover Organization, recently launched a statement distancing itself from the White Home coronavirus advisor, explaining his expressed views as “inconsistent with the university’s approach in reaction to the pandemic.” “We support using masks, social distancing, and carrying out security and diagnostic screening,” read the declaration. “We likewise believe in the importance of strictly following the guidance of regional and state health authorities.”