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SheltieLover

(57,073 posts)
Sun Aug 16, 2020, 04:38 PM Aug 2020

A 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-e18e9c804cee

Dr. 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 OP
Dr DeMented lpbk2713 Aug 2020 #1
He looks demented SheltieLover Aug 2020 #2
To my understanding . . . Iliyah Aug 2020 #3
No doubt. SheltieLover Aug 2020 #4
Christ! Another TV talking head! CaptYossarian Aug 2020 #5
No difference with Trump? He must be a doctor whose oath to do no harm has long been forgotten. Doodley Aug 2020 #6
Atlas Shrugged Blue Owl Aug 2020 #7
Primum bmbmd Aug 2020 #8

Iliyah

(25,111 posts)
3. To my understanding . . .
Sun Aug 16, 2020, 04:48 PM
Aug 2020

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.

CaptYossarian

(6,448 posts)
5. Christ! Another TV talking head!
Sun Aug 16, 2020, 05:15 PM
Aug 2020

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!

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