DR. SCOTT ATLAS: INSIDE TRUMP’S COVID TASK FORCE

The Highwire with Del Bigtree

News, Society & Culture, Health & Fitness

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🗓️ 1 July 2023

⏱️ 85 minutes

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Health policy expert and former and White House Coronavirus Task Force Advisor, Scott Atlas, MD, gives Del his inside look into his 2020 battle within the Trump Administration’s COVID-19 Task Force. He describes a tumultuous scene where Dr. Deborah Birx, Dr. Tony Fauci and Dr. Robert Redfield, among others, fought against sound scientific data in favor of lockdowns, masking and school closures.

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0:00.0	So many of us watch this incredible experience happen before our eyes.
0:05.2	We lost our jobs.
0:06.8	Our children were kept home.
0:09.4	Many of them getting depressed.
0:10.8	We saw our economy destroyed all by a white house and a set of decisions by a task force
0:17.6	that seemed especially if we were watching the highway or to be going against the science
0:22.7	of what we actually saw happening around the world.
0:26.4	At the center of it, there was a moment where there was a bright shining light, at least
0:29.8	from our perspective that stepped in there.
0:32.4	His name was Dr. Scott Atlas.
0:34.8	He has been called a hero.
0:36.8	He has been called a villain.
0:38.6	And when you watch him in the news, this is what that has looked like.
0:42.9	Dr. Scott Atlas, President Trump's special advisor on the pandemic.
0:46.8	Scott is a very famous man.
0:48.6	He was also very highly respected.
0:52.4	Chief resident at Northwestern, fellowship at the University of Pennsylvania, expert in
0:56.8	neuro-radiology.
0:58.2	We have a man with us who is a great expert from Stanford.
1:01.3	He's working with us.
1:02.3	He's consulting with us.
1:03.7	Dr. Scott Atlas.
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