REAL CLEAR HEALTH – In 2020, Dr. Scott Atlas was an advisor to the president and a member of the White House COVID-19 Task Force starting in mid-July 2020.
He was shocked to see how powerful figures in Washington, including Dr. Fauci and Dr. Birx, were incentivized to politicize and monetize the response to the pandemic.
House Oversight Democrats later released a report criticizing the influence Dr. Atlas had on Trump titled: The Atlas Dogma: The Trump Administration’s Embrace Of A Dangerous And Discredited Herd Immunity Via Mass Infection Strategy
In this conversation with PragerU CEO Marissa Streit, Dr. Atlas reveals that many Americans may have died because of censorship, dishonesty, and the demonization of medical dissent.
He discusses in this segment how a meeting planned between top doctors and the Trump White House team was almost canceled by political consultants and Dr. Deborah Birx in August 2020:
DR. SCOTT ATLAS: My role as an advisor to the president was to answer his questions and give him the best information that was available.
And I thought, “OK, this is very important to get the people doing the research in to answer the president of the United States questions.” Not to get him to be persuaded by me, to have him ask his questions to the people doing the research.
So I arranged for five people to come in, including myself, and answer questions and have a discussion with the president in the Oval Office.
We arranged that to occur in August of 2020 which is one of the first things I did with the idea that Birx would be able to come because we kept, we arranged it and she couldn’t come because of her schedule. So we changed the date so she could come.
And this was all set up. I had Doctor Martin Kulldorff, who was a professor at Harvard Medical School …
