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WASHINGTON: Dr. Scott Atlas has resigned as special adviser to President Donald Trump on the coronavirus, a White House official said on Monday (Nov. 30), after four controversial months in the White House in which he repeatedly clashed with others. members of the task force responding to the deadly pandemic.
“I am writing to resign my position as special adviser to the president of the United States,” Atlas said in a letter to Trump dated December 1, according to Fox News, which first reported his resignation.
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Atlas, a neuroradiologist, apologized on Twitter this month for giving an interview to the Kremlin-backed Russian television station RT, saying he did not know he was a registered foreign agent in the United States.
Atlas has come under fire from public health experts, including Anthony Fauci, America’s leading infectious disease expert, for providing Trump with misleading or incorrect information about the virus pandemic.
He has repeatedly downplayed the importance of masks, saying this month that the lockdowns had been “an epic failure” to stop their spread.
His views on handling the pandemic have been denounced by his peers at Stanford University School of Medicine and elsewhere.
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