A Plague Upon Our House by Scott W. Atlas

Author:Scott W. Atlas [Scott W. Atlas, M.D.]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781637582213
Publisher: Bombardier Books
Published: 2021-10-03T23:05:35+00:00

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Several days later, I took the elevator down to the lobby in the Trump Hotel, where I was now living, to have a quick breakfast. On the wall behind the bar, adjacent to the dining tables, hung four massive television screens, one of which was always tuned to CNN and another to Fox News. Headlines were filling the screens, starting with the Washington Post, breathlessly quoting “several anonymous sources” said to be in the room who claimed I was “advising that we should let the virus spread” or “advocating a herd immunity strategy.” Of course, I had never said anything like that, not even remotely advocating that the infection be allowed to spread. To the contrary, my public record was filled with specific advice to use mitigation measures and calls to increase those protections for the vulnerable population.

I was shocked and amazed by this public attack from my colleagues. But at the same time I knew that it was not just an attempt to demonize me, to falsely portray me as reckless, but an attempt to hurt the president politically. I am trying to have everyone consider all health harms of the policies and the virus, the only one trying to save lives from all causes—but I am being portrayed as endangering people?? Americans, already off the rails about the pandemic, fragile and filled with fear, were now going to think that his hand-picked advisor actually wanted the infection to run wild through the population. “My God,” I thought. “Truth did not matter one bit to these people. They had no shame when it came to achieving their goal; they lied and distorted the facts without any concern whatsoever about its effects.”

A few days later, it happened that Fauci and I were entering under the West Wing awning at the same time. I turned to him in the foyer and demanded to know, “Did you tell the press that I was advocating a herd immunity strategy? Did you say that?” The tone in my voice made it obvious that I was angry. He immediately replied, “No, that wasn’t me. I never said that!” I found that hard to believe, but admittedly, there were dozens of people listening to the earlier Task Force discussion.

I also suspected that Dr. Birx was one of the people who fed that to the media. She had sent email just days before to the Task Force and COVID Huddle participants, warning that “2.2M deaths” would occur in the next few months “if everyone was to become infected.” The most revealing part of her email, separate from the mistake of relying on a widely disparaged model, was her innuendo “these types of comments are not helpful,” as if someone (me, I realized) had advocated some sort of “let it rip” scenario to achieve herd immunity.

Fauci seemed to be the obvious candidate. As the preferred source for almost every media outlet, I had seen him almost every day on the ubiquitous four-in-one White House television monitors, often several times per day.

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