Donald trump
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Donald Trump
Photographer: Mandel Ngan / AFP Getty Images
Photographer: Mandel Ngan / AFP Getty Images
Twitter Inc. blocked a tweet from an annoying medical adviser to President Donald Trump who said that wearing a mask did not help curb the spread of the coronavirus.
“Does the mask work?NO, ” said Scott Atlas in a tweet removed Sunday via the social networking site. to share false and destructive information, Twitter told CNN.
Trump has consistently minimized the effectiveness of the mask until he himself became the virus. Public fitness experts, adding Anthony Fauci, director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, said its use is helping to slow the spread of the virus, which has killed nearly 220,000 Americans.
Atlas, a green neuroradiologist in epidemiology, affiliated with Stanford University’s conservative Hoover Institution, continually argued that blockades were excessive, driven to reopen the economy, and said it was more productive to spread to other healthy young people about the virus so that it would expand immunity.
Atlas was included in the White House Coronavirus Working Group in August and has become Trump’s favorite after appearances on Fox News and other conservative media outlets in which he minimized the threat of the virus to anyone older and fragile.
Other members of the working group, including Fauci and Deborah Birx, were the pillars of Trump’s press meetings at the beginning of the pandemic, but disappeared from sight in the White House.
Trump last held an official press convention with them in April, and July 30 was the last time Trump celebrated an occasion of any kind with Fauci and Birx.
In September, Atlas criticized Robert Redfield, director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, saying that 90% of Americans were still vulnerable to the virus. Fauci responded on Redfield’s behalf and said Atlas “tends to know. “
Redfield also criticized Atlas, saying that “everything he says is wrong,” according to an NBC report in September, that he had heard Redfield comment while on an advertising flight.
Atlas is unmasked in the White House. In general, the Covid-19 epidemic there, which infuriated Trump, the first lady, his teenage son, several aides and others, has done little to replace the behavior of masked dresses in Trump’s orbit.
One of the theories referred to through Atlas is that so-called collective immunity opposed to coronavirus can be achieved with between 20% and 25% of others who get the infection.
Michael Osterholm, director of the Center for Infectious Disease Research and Policy at the University of Minnesota, called the concept “the ultimate amazing blend of goblin dust and pseudoscience I’ve ever seen. “Achieving collective immunity is at least 50% to 70%,” he said Sunday in NBC’s Meet the Press.