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EXCLUSIVE: Former Trump COVID special advisor Dr. Scott Atlas slammed Dr. Deborah Birx for her reported testimony to congressional investigators as “an Orwellian attempt to rewrite history,” defending his work on the Trump COVID-19 task force, and telling Fox News that history’s “biggest failure of public health policy lies directly at the hands of” officials who recommended lockdowns during the early months of the coronavirus pandemic.
Birx testified before the House Select Subcommittee on the Coronavirus Crisis earlier this month, saying that officials in former President Trump’s White House did not take steps to push mask-wearing, social distancing and other mitigation steps that could have prevented thousands of COVID-19 deaths.
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Birx also reportedly slammed Atlas, saying he advocated for letting COVID-19 spread through the population to reach herd immunity. The New York Times reported Birx testified that she repeatedly raised her concerns about Atlas’ positions and theories to other doctors on the task force.
Deborah Birx, coronavirus response coordinator, speaks during a Coronavirus Task Force news conference at the White House in Washington, D.C., U.S., on Tuesday, April 7, 2020. Photographer: Jim Lo Scalzo/EPA/Bloomberg via Getty Images
Atlas, defending his work to Fox News, said during his time at the White House, he recommended policies “designed to reduce both the spread of the infection to the vulnerable and the harms of the policies themselves to those impacted the most– low-income families, the working class of America, and our children.”
Atlas, delivering a point-by-point rebuttal to reports of Birx’s testimony about his role, told Fox News that her claim that he advised Trump to “let the infection spread widely without mitigation to achieve herd immunity,” telling Fox News that “is false.”
“I never advised the president, the Task Force, or…
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