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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsA new White House doctor is giving coronavirus advice to Trump
https://www.localmemphis.com/mobile/article/news/health/coronavirus/trump-new-white-house-coronavirus-doctor/507-fc22484e-58ab-4f2f-942d-e18e9c804ceeDr. Scott Atlas is Trump's newest pandemic adviser and is a fellow at Stanford University's conservative Hoover Institution and frequent guest on Fox News channel.
Author: Associated Press
Published: 9:33 AM CDT August 16, 2020
Updated: 9:33 AM CDT August 16, 2020
President Donald Trump has found a new doctor for his coronavirus task force and this time there's no daylight between them.
Trump last week announced that Dr. Scott Atlas, a frequent guest on Fox News Channel, has joined the White House as a pandemic adviser. Atlas, the former chief of neuroradiology at Stanford University Medical Center and a fellow at Stanford's conservative Hoover Institution, has no expertise in public health or infectious diseases.
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A new White House doctor is giving coronavirus advice to Trump (Original Post)
SheltieLover
Aug 2020
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lpbk2713
(42,777 posts)1. Dr DeMented
He should fit right in.
SheltieLover
(57,073 posts)2. He looks demented
1st thought when I saw him: Mengola! 😳
Iliyah
(25,111 posts)3. To my understanding . . .
Dr. Atlas is not an Epidemiologist. He also telling shithole exactly what he wants t o hear - "it will go away soon" and people can go to work and school bullshit.
SheltieLover
(57,073 posts)4. No doubt.
What could go wrong?
CaptYossarian
(6,448 posts)5. Christ! Another TV talking head!
Did Putin select Chauncey Gardner from Being There to occupy the White House? Trumpass must've led a very sheltered life--between the porn stars and child molesters.
Why didn't Putin select Nell from that movie a few years back? Or that kid from Deliverance? OMFG!
Doodley
(9,179 posts)6. No difference with Trump? He must be a doctor whose oath to do no harm has long been forgotten.
Blue Owl
(50,605 posts)7. Atlas Shrugged
"Sounds good, whatever you say Donald"
bmbmd
(3,088 posts)8. Primum
non nocerum.