President-elect Joe Biden’s cowardly advisory board member Dr. Celine Gounder told CNBC that President Donald Trump’s special adviser on the coronavirus epidemic, Dr. She is relieved to hear that Scott Atlas has officially resigned from his post.
“I am relieved that in the future those who are qualified, infectious disease specialists and epidemiologists like me will help lead these efforts, who specialize in this,” Gounder said in an interview Monday evening with “News with Shepard Smith.” “You wouldn’t go to a podiatrist for a heart attack, and it was necessary that it was happening.”
Atlas specializes in neuroradiology and has no background in infectious diseases. He repeatedly forced schools to reopen and after questioning the effectiveness of the mask, dozens of Stanford medical researchers and doctors called their former colleagues. They accused Atlas of “misrepresenting science.”
In his resignation letterAtlas said that as he learned new information he “always relied on the latest science and evidence” and “synthesized the latest data”.
“While some may disagree with those recommendations, it is a free exchange of ideas leading to scientific truth, which is the foundation of any civilized society,” he wrote.
Atlas’s resignation comes as coronavirus cases continue to rise across the country. The United States has reported an average of more than 162,000 cases a day in the past week, and this month alone, more than 4.5 million new cases have been reported. That means about a third of all cases in the country were added in November, according to a CNBC analysis of Johns Hopkins data.
According to Gounder, an epidemiologist at NYU, the Trump administration’s policies, in particular, are quite different from those of the Biden administration around masks and testing.
“Unfortunately wearing a mask has been politicized where this is really a basic hygienic measure, such as using toilet paper, it should never be turned into a political symbol.” “Speaking of testing, the current administration has been actively discouraging people from testing, and saying we’re being tested a lot.”
In June, Trump told supporters at a campaign rally in Tulsa, Oklahoma, that increasing testing counts more cases of the virus.
“When you test to that extent, you get more people, you get more cases,” Trump said. Trump said. “So I said to my people, ‘Please slow down the test.’ They test and they test. “
Hospitals across the country have been buzzing with a surge in cases. OV More than 1,000,000 Americans have been hospitalized in Covid-1 with – the highest according to the Covid tracking project.
Gunder said the Biden administration would begin by focusing on the location of vaccine sites to ensure that black and minority communities have an equal chance of getting a valid covid vaccine.
“For example, with testing, we’ve seen fewer test sites in color communities, the lines have lengthened, the turn time has lengthened,” Gounder explained. “So really making sure we work with providers who care for those communities to make sure they can also provide vaccine access.”
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