The New Yorker Magazine (№ 4th & 11th January 2021) by David Remnick (Editor In Chief)

Author:David Remnick (Editor In Chief) [Remnick, David]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: culture, politics, art, jounalism, magazine, non-fiction
Publisher: Conde Nast
Published: 2021-01-04T10:06:38+00:00

episode. Flanked by the American flag Your HIV colleagues are ashamed.” of Atlas’s views on covid seemed reck-and a painting of Ronald Reagan, he Birx was accused of enabling an in-less. He insisted that masks did little

looked wan, his eyes rheumy. He quoted competent and mendacious President. to stop the spread, and he advocated a newspaper headline: “u.s. death The mortified look on her face at the creating “herd immunity” by allowing rate falls for third day in a press briefing when he suggested in-the virus to be passed freely among peo-

row.” Other newscasts had hyped ris-

jecting disinfectant or using powerful ple at lower risk. Herd immunity is ing case counts, he complained, add-light—“inside the body, which you can gained when roughly seventy per cent ing, “They never get to the death rate do either through the skin or in some of a population has effective antibodis falling.”

other way”—became a meme, under-

ies to the disease, through either infec-

On Monday, both were sick enough scoring how much Trump had com-

tion or vaccination.

to go to a clinic for a test. Cain was promised scientists. The public didn’t Once Atlas got to the White House,

feeling weak, so he waited by the car know what she was saying in private.

Trump stopped speaking to other

while Gallo stood in a long line. Sud-

Birx confided to colleagues that she’d health advisers. Herd immunity could denly, he passed out. An E.M.S. truck lost confidence in the C.D.C. She dis-be achieved by doing nothing at all,

took him to the E.R. “They checked paraged the agency’s hospital reports which became the President’s unspo-him out and said he was fine,” Gallo on covid, which relied on models, not ken policy. Atlas encouraged Trump recalled. They returned to the testing hard data. A C.D.C. staffer told Sci-and others to believe that the pan-

clinic. Both were positive.

ence that compiling precise totals daily demic was waning. “His voice is really Her case was mild. On July 1st, Cain in a pandemic was impossible. But hos-very welcome combatting some of the

was hospitalized. That day, he tweeted pitals quickly complied after Birx said nonsense that comes out of Fauci,”

an article about a forthcoming Trump that supplies of remdesivir could be Stephen Moore, a White House eco-rally at Mt. Rushmore. “Masks will not portioned out only to hospitals that nomic adviser, reportedly said. (The be mandatory,” Cain tweeted, adding provided inpatient COVID data.

White House denies that “the Presi-

approvingly, “people are fed up!” It

In August, Dr. Scott Atlas, a neuro-

dent, the White House, or anyone in

was a defiant nod to Trump’s base. Cain radiologist, a fellow at Stanford Uni-the Administration has pursued or

died on July 30th. He was seventy-four.

versity’s Hoover Institution, and a Fox advocated for a strategy of achieving News regular, joined the task force. He herd immunity.”)

For some public-health officials, was adamant that children should re- Birx and Atlas had it out in the Oval Deborah Birx had become an ob-turn to school—as was the American Office, in front of Trump. Birx accused ject of scorn.

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