Scott initially wanted to follow his father in the muscle industry business, but got diverted when his father said "Scotty" was better suited as a biologist than a bodybuilder. Scott Atlas is the son of famous bodybuilder Charles Atlas, who is best known for showing his muscles and being the inspiration for Ayn Rand's ponderous book Atlas Oiled. The president subsequently claimed to have been “ sarcastic”.Charles Atlas: The man who beefed up America against the Liberals and Reds. Trump interrupted: “I think that’s a great thing to look at. When you have a fever, it helps your body respond. Trump asked if sunlight might work, saying: “Deborah, have you ever heard of that? The heat and the light relative to certain viruses, yes, but relative to this virus?”īirx said: “Not as a treatment. That’s pretty powerful.”Īs the Guardian reported, Birx “remained silent. “So, we’ll see, but the whole concept of the light, the way it kills it in one minute. And is there a way we can do something like that by injection inside or almost a cleaning because you see it gets in the lungs and it does a tremendous number on the lungs, so it’d be interesting to check that, so that you’re going to have to use medical doctors with, but it sounds interesting to me. Trump said: “And then I see the disinfectant, where it knocks it out in one minute. On Thursday 23 April 2020, William Bryan, undersecretary for science and technology at the Department of Homeland Security, discussed a study of effects on the coronavirus from sun exposure and cleaning agents – as applied to surfaces, not the human body. Trump even took the drug himself, before the Food and Drug Administration revoked emergency use authorization, citing concerns about side effects including “serious heart rhythm problems” and death.Ītlas’s reference to “drinking disinfectant, ingesting bleach and using UV light” is to the events of a memorable White House briefing when again it was Trump’s pronouncements that went wildly awry – not those of his officials. But Trump himself proved an enthusiastic advocate, disagreeing with his senior scientist and asking the public: “What do you have to lose?” Hydroxychloroquine, an anti-malarial, was touted as a Covid treatment by non-governmental voices including two billionaires, Elon Musk and Larry Ellison.įauci said repeatedly such claims should be treated with caution. They were there as the sole medical input into the taskforce, generating the entire advisory output to the states.” Atlas’s book is replete with attacks on both.ĭescribing the fight against Covid before he came to the White House, Atlas accidentally sideswipes Trump when he writes: “Birx and Fauci stood alongside the president during headline-dominating debacles in the Brady Press Room about using hydroxychloroquine, drinking disinfectant, ingesting bleach and using UV light to cure the virus. Both were senior members of Trump’s Covid taskforce. Fauci has served seven presidents as director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases. Speaking to Fox News, Atlas promised to “expose the unvarnished truth” about Trump’s Covid taskforce, including “a shocking lack of critical thinking about the science … a reckless abuse of public health and a moral failure in what should be expected from public health leaders”.īirx, an army physician, is a longtime leader in the fight against Aids. Its publisher is Bombardier Books, an imprint of PostHill Press, a conservative outlet that will also publish a memoir by Kayleigh McEnany, Trump’s fourth press secretary. His book, A Plague Upon Our House: My Fight at the Trump White House to Stop Covid from Destroying America, will be published on 7 December. He became a special adviser to Donald Trump in August 2020, five months into the pandemic, but resigned less than four months later after a controversial spell in the role. Atlas, a radiologist, is a fellow at the Hoover Institution at Stanford University, California, specializing in healthcare policy.
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