Hello Hello - Breaking on NBC: Redfield voices alarm over influence of Trump's new coronavirus task

[malaise]

adviser. CDC Director Robert Redfield took aim at Covid-19 task force member Scott Atlas, telling colleague in an overheard call that "everything he says is false

https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/politics-news/redfield-voices-alarm-over-influence-trump-s-new-coronavirus-task-n1241221

The director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has grown increasingly concerned that President Donald Trump, pushed by a new member of his coronavirus task force, is sharing incorrect information about the pandemic with the public.

Dr. Robert Redfield, who leads the CDC, suggested in a conversation with a colleague Friday that Dr. Scott Atlas is arming Trump with misleading data about a range of issues, including questioning the efficacy of masks, whether young people are susceptible to the virus and the potential benefits of herd immunity.

"Everything he says is false," Redfield said during a phone call made in public on a commercial airline and overheard by NBC News.

Redfield acknowledged after the flight from Atlanta to Washington, D.C., that he was speaking about Atlas, a neuroradiologist with no background in infectious diseases or public health. Atlas was brought on to the White House task force in August.

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That's one way to get the news out.
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Lock up these people for murder

[BigmanPigman]

1. If he doesn't tell the citizens tRump's lies

than tRump will just get another "expert" who will.

[malaise]

2. Redfield has been part of the problem

He should call a press conference and tell all

[JI7]

4. He was but ever since Katie Porter questioned him he has been trying

to do the right thing. And that's why we stopped seeing him for a long time.

[malaise]

7. I think he deliberately spoke on the aircraft knowing press were there

but he too is part of the problem. Their silence and fawning from early facilitated this mass murder

[jaxexpat]

20. Yeah, What is this?

Is he compromised? A closet flasher? For that matter, what's up with Birx? Is she the "Susan Collins of medicine" or not? She has made no effort to call down Trumps wrongnesses in real time, even when they are a threat to the health and well being of the nation. She just has this "frozen in horror" look she swallows.

How do you like that, "wrongnesses"? "I got a million of 'em", thank you James Durante.

[dixiegrrrrl]

21. The CDC has lost credibility because of Redfield...and Birx.

Birx's current half hearted musings about "maybe I should disagree out lloud with trump" have done her no good at all. Like Redfield, they had a narrow window of time to walk away, and didn't.
A lot of people saw her and him on the stage and assumed they were both CDC.

It's his voters who are gonna bear the brunt of Covid. I so feel sorry for their defenseless young kids.

[malaise]

22. Agree

how are things coming around since the hurricane?

[bullwinkle428]

3. This is like the fucking Supreme Court! We're now forced to view Redfield as

one of the "good guys", just like John Roberts, as their counterparts have achieved such cretinous depths.

[malaise]

5. +1,000

He is one more fawning hypocrite who has helped facilitate all these deaths and infections.
He should resign at a press conference

[Zoonart]

6. This guy Redfield and all of the other medical appeasers

Need to loose their license to practice. The Hippocratic Oath says : “primum non nocere,” FIRST DO NO HARM.

[malaise]

9. They sure did harm complete with the scarves

[tanyev]

8. Yes, but Dr. Atlas has that central casting 'look' of an attractive, mature, trustworthy doctor.

That's all that matters to Donny. Well, that and the willingness to tell him everything he wants to hear.

[malaise]

10. Which is all that matters to the shitshowman (thanks Blue Owl)

[Botany]

11. Stanford Medical faculty lambaste former colleague and Trump coronavirus advisor Dr. Scott Atlas

https://www.cnbc.com/2020/09/10/stanford-medical-faculty-lambaste-former-colleague-and-trump-coronavirus-advisor-dr-scott-atlas.html

A group of 78 researchers and doctors from Stanford Medical School are calling out former colleague and White House coronavirus advisor Dr. Scott Atlas for spreading what they characterized as “falsehoods and misrepresentation of science.”

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The radiologist and senior fellow at Stanford University’s conservative Hoover Institution has advocated against the use of masks and pushed the White House to adopt a controversial strategy, allowing young people to contract the coronavirus in hopes of achieving “herd immunity.” Atlas, who doesn’t have any training or background in infectious diseases, has appeared on Fox News to push for reopening schools and questioned the efficacy of masks.

“Many of his opinions and statements run counter to establish science, and, by doing so, undermine public-health authorities and the credible science that guides effective public health policy,” reads the letter addressed to colleagues on Wednesday. It lists a series of bullet-points, highlighting the importance of public health interventions like wearing masks and social distancing. The authors also point out that testing asymptomatic people is important, and children of all ages can be infected with the virus.

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“Encouraging herd immunity through unchecked community transmission is not a safe public health strategy,” it says.

[malaise]

13. He threatened to sue then

[AlexSFCA]

12. will he be replaced by Dr. Oz?

[malaise]

16. Don't rule that out

[triron]

14. In most administrations this would be a huge overriding scandal. With Trump's it's a footnote.

Thanks for being on the ball Malaise.

[malaise]

15. It is the pandemic that is taking him out

The rest is gravy

[Turbineguy]

17. Atlas is there to help

Trump kill more people.

[malaise]

19. This one sure isn't holding up the world

These are crimes against humanity

[Initech]

18. A professional liar in the Trump administration? I am shocked, shocked!!

[malaise]

23. LOL