(1) A number of solutions should be pursued simultaneously(2) Fauci’s Out; Dr. Scott Atlas will restore Common Sense - Ron Paul(3) Scott Atlas: Trump drops Anthony Fauci for expert who favours a looser lockdown(4) Move over Dr. Fauci, Trump now has new doctor's advice(5) Atlas was Professor and chief of Nuroradiology at Stanford University Medical Center(6) Stop the Panic and end the total Isolation -  Dr. Scott W. Atlas(1) A number of solutions should be pursued simultaneouslyby Peter Myers, August 18, 2020Fauci and other medical bureaucrats have refused to approve experimental treatments, even when they are well-attested.Now that Fauci's gone, doctors should be free to prescribe their treatment of choice, e.g. HCQ or Ivermectin (with Zinc and Doxycycline or Azithromycin). Alternative medicines, such as China and Cuba use for Covid-19, should also be allowed. Dr David Brownstein's vitamin and oxygen remedies should be permitted, and the ban on his youtube videos withdrawn.Rather than wait for a vaccine produced by Big Pharma, to be forced on all citizens and at Wall St's high prices, Nikolai Petrovsky's vaccine from Australia should be assisted with funding and further trials. He's already well-known for his Ebola vaccine.(2) Fauci’s Out; Dr. Scott Atlas will restore Common Sense - Ron Paulhttp://ronpaulinstitute.org/archives/featured-articles/2020/august/17/good-news-fauci-s-out-and-common-sense-might-be-returning/Good News: Fauci’s Out and Common Sense Might Be Returningwritten by ron paulmonday august 17, 2020These days it seems there is not much good news out there. People are still panicked over the coronavirus, governments are still trampling civil liberties in the name of fighting the virus, the economy –already teetering on the edge of collapse – has been kicked to the ground by what history may record as one of the worst man-made disasters of all time: shutting down the country to fight a cold virus.That’s why we’ll take good news wherever we can get it, and President Trump’s hiring of Dr. Scott Atlas to his coronavirus task force may just be that good news we need. As the media has reported, President Trump has sidelined headline-hogging Anthony Fauci in favor of Atlas, the former Stanford University Medical Center chief of neuroradiology.Recall, Fauci was the "expert" who told us a few months ago that we would never be able to shake hands again.Fauci’s advice, forecasts, and assessments proved to be wildly wrong, contradictory, and just plain bizarre: Don’t wear a mask! You must wear a mask. Masks are important as symbols. Put on goggles. Stay home! Churches must be severely restricted but Black Lives Matter marches and encounters with strangers met over the Internet are perfectly fine.When Anthony Fauci demanded a lockdown of the economy for an indefinite period he actually seemed oblivious to the havoc it would wreak on the economy and on people’s lives. People like Fauci and others who demanded lockdowns and stay-at-home orders were still collecting their paychecks, so what did they care about anyone else?Dr. Scott Atlas is not only a former top physician and hospital administrator: as a senior fellow at the Hoover Institution he also understands the policy implications of locking a country down.On April 22, Dr. Atlas wrote an op-ed in The Hill titled, "The data is in — stop the panic and end the total isolation." In the article he made five main points that are as true today as when he wrote them: an overwhelming majority of people are at no risk of dying from Covid; protecting older people prevents hospital overcrowding; locking down a population actually prevents the herd immunity necessary to defeat the virus; people are dying because they are not being treated for non-Covid illnesses; we know what part of the population is at risk and we can protect them.Imagine how many thousands of lives could have been saved had the Administration listened to Dr. Atlas back in April. CDC Director Robert Redfield admitted last month that lockdowns were killing more Americans than Covid. "First do no harm" was thrown out the window and nearly six months of wrong-headed policy has done perhaps irreparable harm to the country.South Dakota and Sweden did virtually nothing to lock down or restrict their populations and they actually fared better than lockdown states in the US. They had lower death rates, their hospitals were never over-run with Covid patients, and they have an economy to go back to.We very much hope that Dr. Atlas will not "moderate" his message to please the blob in Washington. Trump’s Covid policies to this point have caused more harm than good. With Fauci out of the driver’s seat we finally have a chance of turning things around. Copyright © 2020 by RonPaul Institute. Permission to reprint in whole or in part is gladly granted, provided full credit and a live link are given.(3) Scott Atlas: Trump drops Anthony Fauci for expert who favours a looser lockdownhttps://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/scott-atlas-trump-drops-anthony-fauci-for-expert-who-favours-a-looser-lockdown-fgg2gcjdmHenry Zeffman, WashingtonFriday August 14 2020, 9.00am BST, The TimesPresident Trump has sidelined Anthony Fauci and Deborah Birx, his top virus experts, in favour of a conservative radiologist who opposes severe lockdowns and believes that children should return to school.Scott Atlas, a former professor of neuroradiology at Stanford University and healthcare adviser to Mitt Romney’s 2012 presidential campaign, was introduced by Mr Trump this week as a new adviser on coronavirus.Earlier this month Dr Atlas said that the debate about the reopening of schools was "irrational" and that people were "kidding themselves" if they believed that mass-testing would solve the coronavirus crisis."Scott is a very famous man who’s also very highly respected," Mr Trump said on Monday. "He’s working with us and will be working with us on the coronavirus.(4) Move(1) A number of solutions should be pursued simultaneously(2) Fauci’s Out; Dr. Scott Atlas will restore Common Sense - Ron Paul(3) Scott Atlas: Trump drops Anthony Fauci for expert who favours a looser lockdown(4) Move over Dr. Fauci, Trump now has new doctor's advice(5) Atlas was Professor and chief of Nuroradiology at Stanford University Medical Center(6) Stop the Panic and end the total Isolation -  Dr. Scott W. Atlas(1) A number of solutions should be pursued simultaneouslyby Peter Myers, August 18, 2020Fauci and other medical bureaucrats have refused to approve experimental treatments, even when they are well-attested.Now that Fauci's gone, doctors should be free to prescribe their treatment of choice, e.g. HCQ or Ivermectin (with Zinc and Doxycycline or Azithromycin). Alternative medicines, such as China and Cuba use for Covid-19, should also be allowed. Dr David Brownstein's vitamin and oxygen remedies should be permitted, and the ban on his youtube videos withdrawn.Rather than wait for a vaccine produced by Big Pharma, to be forced on all citizens and at Wall St's high prices, Nikolai Petrovsky's vaccine from Australia should be assisted with funding and further trials. He's already well-known for his Ebola vaccine.(2) Fauci’s Out; Dr. Scott Atlas will restore Common Sense - Ron Paulhttp://ronpaulinstitute.org/archives/featured-articles/2020/august/17/good-news-fauci-s-out-and-common-sense-might-be-returning/Good News: Fauci’s Out and Common Sense Might Be Returningwritten by ron paulmonday august 17, 2020These days it seems there is not much good news out there. People are still panicked over the coronavirus, governments are still trampling civil liberties in the name of fighting the virus, the economy –already teetering on the edge of collapse – has been kicked to the ground by what history may record as one of the worst man-made disasters of all time: shutting down the country to fight a cold virus.That’s why we’ll take good news wherever we can get it, and President Trump’s hiring of Dr. Scott Atlas to his coronavirus task force may just be that good news we need. As the media has reported, President Trump has sidelined headline-hogging Anthony Fauci in favor of Atlas, the former Stanford University Medical Center chief of neuroradiology.Recall, Fauci was the "expert" who told us a few months ago that we would never be able to shake hands again.Fauci’s advice, forecasts, and assessments proved to be wildly wrong, contradictory, and just plain bizarre: Don’t wear a mask! You must wear a mask. Masks are important as symbols. Put on goggles. Stay home! Churches must be severely restricted but Black Lives Matter marches and encounters with strangers met over the Internet are perfectly fine.When Anthony Fauci demanded a lockdown of the economy for an indefinite period he actually seemed oblivious to the havoc it would wreak on the economy and on people’s lives. People like Fauci and others who demanded lockdowns and stay-at-home orders were still collecting their paychecks, so what did they care about anyone else?Dr. Scott Atlas is not only a former top physician and hospital administrator: as a senior fellow at the Hoover Institution he also understands the policy implications of locking a country down.On April 22, Dr. Atlas wrote an op-ed in The Hill titled, "The data is in — stop the panic and end the total isolation." In the article he made five main points that are as true today as when he wrote them: an overwhelming majority of people are at no risk of dying from Covid; protecting older people prevents hospital overcrowding; locking down a population actually prevents the herd immunity necessary to defeat the virus; people are dying because they are not being treated for non-Covid illnesses; we know what part of the population is at risk and we can protect them.Imagine how many thousands of lives could have been saved had the Administration listened to Dr. Atlas back in April. CDC Director Robert Redfield admitted last month that lockdowns were killing more Americans than Covid. "First do no harm" was thrown out the window and nearly six months of wrong-headed policy has done perhaps irreparable harm to the country.South Dakota and Sweden did virtually nothing to lock down or restrict their populations and they actually fared better than lockdown states in the US. They had lower death rates, their hospitals were never over-run with Covid patients, and they have an economy to go back to.We very much hope that Dr. Atlas will not "moderate" his message to please the blob in Washington. Trump’s Covid policies to this point have caused more harm than good. With Fauci out of the driver’s seat we finally have a chance of turning things around. Copyright © 2020 by RonPaul Institute. Permission to reprint in whole or in part is gladly granted, provided full credit and a live link are given.(3) Scott Atlas: Trump drops Anthony Fauci for expert who favours a looser lockdownhttps://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/scott-atlas-trump-drops-anthony-fauci-for-expert-who-favours-a-looser-lockdown-fgg2gcjdmHenry Zeffman, WashingtonFriday August 14 2020, 9.00am BST, The TimesPresident Trump has sidelined Anthony Fauci and Deborah Birx, his top virus experts, in favour of a conservative radiologist who opposes severe lockdowns and believes that children should return to school.Scott Atlas, a former professor of neuroradiology at Stanford University and healthcare adviser to Mitt Romney’s 2012 presidential campaign, was introduced by Mr Trump this week as a new adviser on coronavirus.Earlier this month Dr Atlas said that the debate about the reopening of schools was "irrational" and that people were "kidding themselves" if they believed that mass-testing would solve the coronavirus crisis."Scott is a very famous man who’s also very highly respected," Mr Trump said on Monday. "He’s working with us and will be working with us on the coronavirus.(4) Move over Dr. Fauci, Trump now has new doctor's advicehttps://www.salemnews.com/news/national_news/move-over-dr-fauci-trump-now-has-new-doctors-advice/article_215b8255-415b-577b-8a34-ce69a8d9c4dd.htmlBy Jill ColvinAssociated Press Aug 16, 2020WASHINGTON  — President Donald Trump has found a new doctor for his coronavirus task force — and this time there's no daylight between them.Trump last week announced that Dr. Scott Atlas, a frequent guest on Fox News Channel, has joined the White House as a pandemic adviser. Atlas, the former chief of neuroradiology at Stanford University Medical Center and a fellow at Stanford's conservative Hoover Institution, has no expertise in public health or infectious diseases.But he has long been a critic of coronavirus lockdowns and has campaigned for kids to return to the classroom and for the return of college sports, just like Trump."Scott is a very famous man who’s also very highly respected," Trump told reporters as he introduced the addition. "He has many great ideas and he thinks what we’ve done is really good."Atlas' hiring comes amid ongoing tensions between the president and Drs. Anthony Fauci, the nation's top infectious diseases expert, and Deborah Birx, the task force's coordinator. While Birx remains closely involved in the administration's pandemic response, both she and Fauci have publicly contradicted the rosy picture the president has painted of a virus that has now killed more than 167,000 people in the United States and infected millions nationwide.Atlas, the sole doctor to share the stage at Trump's pandemic briefings this past week, has long questioned polices that have been embraced by public health experts both in the U.S. and abroad. He has called it a "good thing" for younger, healthy people to be exposed to the virus, while falsely claiming children are at near "zero risk."In an April op-ed in The Hill newspaper, Atlas bemoaned that lockdowns may have prevented the development of "natural herd immunity.""In the absence of immunization, society needs circulation of the virus, assuming high-risk people can be isolated," he wrote.In television appearances, Atlas has called on the nation to "get a grip" and argued that "there’s nothing wrong" with having low-risk people get infected, as long as the vulnerable are protected."It doesn't matter if younger, healthier people get infected. I don't know how often that has to be said. They have nearly zero risk of a problem from this," he said in one appearance. "When younger, healthier people get infected, that's a good thing," he went on to say, "because that's exactly the way that population immunity develops."While younger people are certainly at far lower risk of developing serious complications from the virus, they can still spread it to others who may be more vulnerable, even when they have no symptoms. And while their chances of dying are slim, some do face severe complications, with one study finding that 35% of young adults had not returned to normal health two weeks to three weeks after testing positive.But Atlas' thinking closely aligns with Trump's perspective on the virus, which he has played down since its earliest days. While Trump eventually supported the lockdowns that once helped slow the disease's spread, he has since pressured states to reopen schools and businesses as he tries to revive a battered economy before the November election.Public health experts have long bemoaned Trump's efforts to politicize the virus and have encouraged him to let doctors and scientists lead the nation's response. But they questioned the decision to bring on Atlas, whose expertise is in magnetic resonance imaging and whose research has focused on factors impacting health care policy."I think he's utterly unqualified to help lead a COVID response," said Lawrence Gostin, a Georgetown University law professor who specializes in public health. "His medical degree isn’t even close to infectious diseases and public health and he has no experience in dealing with public health outbreaks.""Its very clear to me," Gostin added, "that the president brought on somebody who will just be a mouthpiece for his agenda and a ‘yes’ person." Gostin expressed concern that Trump was sidelining other doctors, including Birx and Fauci, because he had soured on their advice."In the face of an epidemic that’s killing hundreds of thousands of Americans, that’s unforgivable," he said. "You want clear independent advice from people with long experience in fighting novel pandemics and he has none of those credentials."Kavita Patel, a primary care physician and health policy expert who served in the Obama White House, said there’s little that can prepare a doctor for the crucible of a presidential staff, let alone working for the famously volatile Trump."I expect Dr. Atlas’ time will be marked with highs and lows and hopefully he will realize that the country really needs credible expertise and guidance, not partisan bias," said Patel. "By being partisan or political while having such an important (role), doctors undermine their credibility and ultimately dilute the role of science."White House spokesman Judd Deere, in a statement, praised Atlas as "a world renowned physician and scholar" and dismissed questions about Atlas' qualifications."We are all in this fight together, and only the media would distort and diminish Dr. Atlas’ highly acclaimed career simply because he has come to serve the President," he said.Deere declined to say how long Atlas, who is now a paid special government employee, has been advising the president, and insisted his addition would not diminish the roles of Fauci and Birx.Paul E. Peterson, director of the program on education policy and governance at Harvard University and a senior fellow at Hoover with Atlas, praised Atlas as "a really brilliant guy" with "a tremendous knowledge base" about the virus. Peterson said Atlas is someone who conducts "the most rigorous and careful research before he comes to a conclusion."Some colleagues have found Atlas abrasive. But Peterson, who has written several op-eds with Atlas advocating the reopening of schools and who appeared with Atlas at a White House event this past week, praised Atlas as "delightful to work with" and stressed the value of Trump having input from people with a variety of backgrounds."If you get a variety of people from one perspective or one kind of training out there, that’s not desirable," he said. "It’s extremely important to have diversity on the advisory board."Associated Press writer Ricardo Alonso-Zaldivar contributed to this report.(5) Atlas was Professor and chief of Neuroradiology at Stanford University Medical Centerhttps://www.politico.com/news/2020/08/17/trump-scott-atlas-coronavirus-doctor-396741Trump elevates Scott Atlas, a doctor with a rosier coronavirus outlookUnlike Deborah Birx and Anthony Fauci, the new senior adviser is telling the president what he likes to hear.By NANCY COOK08/17/2020 04:30 AM EDTDr. Scott Atlas warns against coronavirus overreaction and hysteria, pushes for the reopening of schools and sports leagues, and downplays the need for broader testing to root out the virus.Unlike bigger-name, more circumspect public health officials, who’ve watched their luster dim at the White House, Atlas has become a star adviser in President Donald Trump’s inner circle at a crucial moment during the pandemic.With the virus showing no sign of letting up — the U.S. has recorded roughly 5.4 million Covid-19 cases and 170,000 deaths — and with less than three months to go in an uphill reelection battle, the president is betting that a telegenic physician with a positive outlook, but no expertise in infectious diseases or epidemiology, can change his fortunes.Atlas, upbeat and relentlessly on message that Americans should resume life as much as they can, is the living embodiment of the president’s Covid-is-not-that-big-of-a-deal approach. Where school superintendents and football conference officials see a risk of the virus’ spread this fall, Atlas cautions against too-strict measures. During Fox News appearances, he has downplayed the need for students to wear face coverings or practice social distancing if schools do reopen."It is proven children have no significant risk," he said during a July 15 TV appearance. It’s a line that Trump has parroted but that hasn’t been borne out in districts where in-person learning has resumed: Schools in Georgia, North Carolina and Indiana have had to shut down shortly after starting the year because of positive cases.In private meetings at the White House, Atlas has irritated other aides by arguing against expanded Covid-19 testing. He opposed a proposal championed by Dr. Deborah Birx, the response coordinator for the White House coronavirus task force, to scale up home testing through methods such as saliva tests. And recently, in a task force meeting, he told Dr. Anthony Fauci, the nation’s top infectious disease expert, that science does not definitively support government mandates on wearing masks. (The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention recommends that Americans wear masks when they interact with those outside the home and in instances when social distancing is not possible.)Atlas’ elevation inside the White House comes at a time when Trump aides are trying to give the perception of doing everything they can to fight the virus and find a vaccine roughly 80 days from the election, as the rate of infection climbs and the United States’ testing capacity falls short. Trump has sidelined or lashed out at many of his top health professionals, including Fauci and Birx, and has welcomed the different medical perspective Atlas provides, one senior administration official said.Atlas declined to comment when reached by phone.Critics, including other conservatives and health officials, say he is shading science and facts with a partisan lens to elevate himself and gain power in Republican circles."At the end of the day, this is a problem for Stanford," said one former colleague from the Hoover Institution, the right-leaning think tank at the university where Atlas is a fellow. "Look, we have an administration that is lying about the virus, and they are grasping for anyone in a senior academic role. When they can use that branding and that title, it is instant credibility and that is what the administration is looking for."Judd Deere, the White House deputy press secretary, said in a statement: "We are all in this fight together, and only the media has distorted and diminished Dr. Atlas’ highly acclaimed career simply because he has come to serve the President. Dr. Atlas, like all of the medical experts in the Administration, is working to carry out the President’s number one priority: protecting the health and safety of the American people."Atlas first came to the attention of the Trump administration the way it finds so many top officials: through his appearances on Fox News. His comments on the coronavirus lockdown and the need to reopen the economy and schools caught the attention of the president and several top aides, including Jared Kushner, according to a second senior administration official.A few weeks ago, Atlas officially joined the administration as an adviser, and in a short time he has become a frequent presence in the Oval Office and around the White House complex.He spoke publicly at a White House event about school reopening and appeared at one of the president’s evening briefings, the only medical professional to do so in recent weeks. He has quickly established himself as a voice pushing for the resumption of daily activity, including college football and schools — which Trump advisers and aides see as a key marker of normalcy that will help Trump’s reelection campaign.Far more significantly, he’s part of a tiny group of advisers who meet every morning to chart the daily response to Covid-19, a group that includes long-standing aides like Kushner and Stephen Miller. He has gained influence so quickly that he even helps to prepare the president in the Oval Office for the newly revived evening briefings and makes suggestions for Trump’s opening remarks, according to interviews with six senior administration officials and Republicans close to the White House.Atlas frequently questions or spars with other administration officials about data on the spread of the virus, or the efficacy of the government’s requiring people to wear masks, or the merits of broadening testing among the wider population — all of which other health professionals consider key planks in combating the virus, a sort of Pandemic 101.He has become the president’s go-to Covid-19 doctor, the anti-Fauci, even if he does not have a background in infectious diseases or epidemiology. Instead, his specialty lies in radiology and neuroradiology, subjects he taught for many years as a professor and chief of neuroradiology at the Stanford University Medical Center."There is nothing inherently bad with having a management leader of a task force who is not a subject-matter expert, like an epidemiologist," said Juliette Kayyem, a former top Obama Department of Homeland Security official who was heavily involved in the response to the H1N1 pandemic."Every crisis has brains and muscle," Kayyem added. "You have the scientists who know how to get the vaccine and protect us from the virus, and then you have the people who get things done, but Dr. Atlas doesn’t seem to fit into either. The only thing that will happen is that he will be another impediment to either real science or real action."In addition to his research at the Hoover Institution on health care policy and pricing, Atlas has advised past presidential candidates, including Rudy Giuliani in 2008 and Mitt Romney in 2012. At the White House, he is working as a paid special government employee.Two colleagues from the Hoover Institution praised Atlas’ work as serious and evidence-based."He is a rigorous scientist," said Paul Peterson, a senior fellow at the Hoover Institution and a professor of government at Harvard University with whom Atlas recently wrote an op-ed on reopening schools. "Just look at his prior research. Everything he says is backed up with citations."Michael Boskin, an economics professor at Stanford and a senior fellow at Hoover, added: "Scott is a highly valued colleague. He brings someone from the top of academic medicine’s perspective to health policy, which complements the economists, lawyers and others working on the subject, and since he has joined Hoover, he has been an important part of the discussion in and around health policy."Past colleagues and other health professionals say Atlas is someone who always likes to be in the center of the action and has always been interested in gaining power — and that now includes his position inside the White House.Trump "has found someone who will take him back to 2019 who says, ‘Don’t wear masks. Open the schools,’" said Kayyem, the former Homeland Security official. "We are going through this. We’re not going back."The strategy of see no evil may be working for Trump, but it is not working for America. This is just more of the same."(6) Stop the Panic and end the total Isolation -  Dr. Scott W. Atlashttps://thehill.com/opinion/healthcare/494034-the-data-are-in-stop-the-panic-and-end-the-total-isolationThe data is in — stop the panic and end the total isolationBy Dr. Scott W. Atlas, Opinion Contributor — 04/22/20 12:30 Pm EdtFive key facts are being ignored by those calling for continuing the near-total lockdown.Fact 1: The overwhelming majority of people do not have any significant risk of dying from COVID-19.The recent Stanford University antibody study now estimates that the fatality rate if infected is likely 0.1 to 0.2 percent, a risk far lower than previous World Health Organization estimates that were 20 to 30 times higher and that motivated isolation policies.In New York City, an epicenter of the pandemic with more than one-third of all U.S. deaths, the rate of death for people 18 to 45 years old is 0.01 percent, or 10 per 100,000 in the population. On the other hand, people aged 75 and over have a death rate 80 times that. For people under 18 years old, the rate of death is zero per 100,000.Of all fatal cases in New York state, two-thirds were in patients over 70 years of age; more than 95 percent were over 50 years of age; and about 90 percent of all fatal cases had an underlying illness. Of 6,570 confirmed COVID-19 deaths fully investigated for underlying conditions to date, 6,520, or 99.2 percent, had an underlying illness. If you do not already have an underlying chronic condition, your chances of dying are small, regardless of age. And young adults and children in normal health have almost no risk of any serious illness from COVID-19.Fact 2: Protecting older, at-risk people eliminates hospital overcrowding.We can learn about hospital utilization from data from New York City, the hotbed of COVID-19 with more than 34,600 hospitalizations to date. For those under 18 years of age, hospitalization from the virus is 0.01 percent, or 11 per 100,000 people; for those 18 to 44 years old, hospitalization is 0.1 percent. Even for people ages 65 to 74, only 1.7 percent were hospitalized. Of 4,103 confirmed COVID-19 patients with symptoms bad enough to seek medical care, Dr. Leora Horwitz of NYU Medical Center concluded "age is far and away the strongest risk factor for hospitalization." Even early WHO reports noted that 80 percent of all cases were mild, and more recent studies show a far more widespread rate of infection and lower rate of serious illness. Half of all people testing positive for infection have no symptoms at all. The vast majority of younger, otherwise healthy people do not need significant medical care if they catch this infection.Fact 3: Vital population immunity is prevented by total isolation policies, prolonging the problem.We know from decades of medical science that infection itself allows people to generate an immune response — antibodies — so that the infection is controlled throughout the population by "herd immunity." Indeed, that is the main purpose of widespread immunization in other viral diseases — to assist with population immunity. In this virus, we know that medical care is not even necessary for the vast majority of people who are infected. It is so mild that half of infected people are asymptomatic, shown in early data from the Diamond Princess ship, and then in Iceland and Italy. That has been falsely portrayed as a problem requiring mass isolation. In fact, infected people without severe illness are the immediately available vehicle for establishing widespread immunity. By transmitting the virus to others in the low-risk group who then generate antibodies, they block the network of pathways toward the most vulnerable people, ultimately ending the threat. Extending whole-population isolation would directly prevent that widespread immunity from developing.Fact 4: People are dying because other medical care is not getting done due to hypothetical projections.Critical health care for millions of Americans is being ignored and people are dying to accommodate "potential" COVID-19 patients and for fear of spreading the disease. Most states and many hospitals abruptly stopped "nonessential" procedures and surgery. That prevented diagnoses of life-threatening diseases, like cancer screening, biopsies of tumors now undiscovered and potentially deadly brain aneurysms. Treatments, including emergency care, for the most serious illnesses were also missed. Cancer patients deferred chemotherapy. An estimated 80 percent of brain surgery cases were skipped. Acute stroke and heart attack patients missed their only chances for treatment, some dying and many now facing permanent disability.Fact 5: We have a clearly defined population at risk who can be protected with targeted measures.The overwhelming evidence all over the world consistently shows that a clearly defined group — older people and others with underlying conditions — is more likely to have a serious illness requiring hospitalization and more likely to die from COVID-19. Knowing that, it is a commonsense, achievable goal to target isolation policy to that group, including strictly monitoring those who interact with them. Nursing home residents, the highest risk, should be the most straightforward to systematically protect from infected people, given that they already live in confined places with highly restricted entry.The appropriate policy, based on fundamental biology and the evidence already in hand, is to institute a more focused strategy like some outlined in the first place: Strictly protect the known vulnerable, self-isolate the mildly sick and open most workplaces and small businesses with some prudent large-group precautions. This would allow the essential socializing to generate immunity among those with minimal risk of serious consequence, while saving lives, preventing overcrowding of hospitals and limiting the enormous harms compounded by continued total isolation. Let’s stop underemphasizing empirical evidence while instead doubling down on hypothetical models. Facts matter.Scott W. Atlas, MD, is the David and Joan Traitel Senior Fellow at Stanford University’s Hoover Institution and the former chief of neuroradiology at Stanford University Medical Center. over Dr. Fauci, Trump now has new doctor's advicehttps://www.salemnews.com/news/national_news/move-over-dr-fauci-trump-now-has-new-doctors-advice/article_215b8255-415b-577b-8a34-ce69a8d9c4dd.htmlBy Jill ColvinAssociated Press Aug 16, 2020WASHINGTON  — President Donald Trump has found a new doctor for his coronavirus task force — and this time there's no daylight between them.Trump last week announced that Dr. Scott Atlas, a frequent guest on Fox News Channel, has joined the White House as a pandemic adviser. Atlas, the former chief of neuroradiology at Stanford University Medical Center and a fellow at Stanford's conservative Hoover Institution, has no expertise in public health or infectious diseases.But he has long been a critic of coronavirus lockdowns and has campaigned for kids to return to the classroom and for the return of college sports, just like Trump."Scott is a very famous man who’s also very highly respected," Trump told reporters as he introduced the addition. "He has many great ideas and he thinks what we’ve done is really good."Atlas' hiring comes amid ongoing tensions between the president and Drs. Anthony Fauci, the nation's top infectious diseases expert, and Deborah Birx, the task force's coordinator. While Birx remains closely involved in the administration's pandemic response, both she and Fauci have publicly contradicted the rosy picture the president has painted of a virus that has now killed more than 167,000 people in the United States and infected millions nationwide.Atlas, the sole doctor to share the stage at Trump's pandemic briefings this past week, has long questioned polices that have been embraced by public health experts both in the U.S. and abroad. He has called it a "good thing" for younger, healthy people to be exposed to the virus, while falsely claiming children are at near "zero risk."In an April op-ed in The Hill newspaper, Atlas bemoaned that lockdowns may have prevented the development of "natural herd immunity.""In the absence of immunization, society needs circulation of the virus, assuming high-risk people can be isolated," he wrote.In television appearances, Atlas has called on the nation to "get a grip" and argued that "there’s nothing wrong" with having low-risk people get infected, as long as the vulnerable are protected."It doesn't matter if younger, healthier people get infected. I don't know how often that has to be said. They have nearly zero risk of a problem from this," he said in one appearance. "When younger, healthier people get infected, that's a good thing," he went on to say, "because that's exactly the way that population immunity develops."While younger people are certainly at far lower risk of developing serious complications from the virus, they can still spread it to others who may be more vulnerable, even when they have no symptoms. And while their chances of dying are slim, some do face severe complications, with one study finding that 35% of young adults had not returned to normal health two weeks to three weeks after testing positive.But Atlas' thinking closely aligns with Trump's perspective on the virus, which he has played down since its earliest days. While Trump eventually supported the lockdowns that once helped slow the disease's spread, he has since pressured states to reopen schools and businesses as he tries to revive a battered economy before the November election.Public health experts have long bemoaned Trump's efforts to politicize the virus and have encouraged him to let doctors and scientists lead the nation's response. But they questioned the decision to bring on Atlas, whose expertise is in magnetic resonance imaging and whose research has focused on factors impacting health care policy."I think he's utterly unqualified to help lead a COVID response," said Lawrence Gostin, a Georgetown University law professor who specializes in public health. "His medical degree isn’t even close to infectious diseases and public health and he has no experience in dealing with public health outbreaks.""Its very clear to me," Gostin added, "that the president brought on somebody who will just be a mouthpiece for his agenda and a ‘yes’ person." Gostin expressed concern that Trump was sidelining other doctors, including Birx and Fauci, because he had soured on their advice."In the face of an epidemic that’s killing hundreds of thousands of Americans, that’s unforgivable," he said. "You want clear independent advice from people with long experience in fighting novel pandemics and he has none of those credentials."Kavita Patel, a primary care physician and health policy expert who served in the Obama White House, said there’s little that can prepare a doctor for the crucible of a presidential staff, let alone working for the famously volatile Trump."I expect Dr. Atlas’ time will be marked with highs and lows and hopefully he will realize that the country really needs credible expertise and guidance, not partisan bias," said Patel. "By being partisan or political while having such an important (role), doctors undermine their credibility and ultimately dilute the role of science."White House spokesman Judd Deere, in a statement, praised Atlas as "a world renowned physician and scholar" and dismissed questions about Atlas' qualifications."We are all in this fight together, and only the media would distort and diminish Dr. Atlas’ highly acclaimed career simply because he has come to serve the President," he said.Deere declined to say how long Atlas, who is now a paid special government employee, has been advising the president, and insisted his addition would not diminish the roles of Fauci and Birx.Paul E. Peterson, director of the program on education policy and governance at Harvard University and a senior fellow at Hoover with Atlas, praised Atlas as "a really brilliant guy" with "a tremendous knowledge base" about the virus. Peterson said Atlas is someone who conducts "the most rigorous and careful research before he comes to a conclusion."Some colleagues have found Atlas abrasive. But Peterson, who has written several op-eds with Atlas advocating the reopening of schools and who appeared with Atlas at a White House event this past week, praised Atlas as "delightful to work with" and stressed the value of Trump having input from people with a variety of backgrounds."If you get a variety of people from one perspective or one kind of training out there, that’s not desirable," he said. "It’s extremely important to have diversity on the advisory board."Associated Press writer Ricardo Alonso-Zaldivar contributed to this report.(5) Atlas was Professor and chief of Nuroradiology at Stanford University Medical Centerhttps://www.politico.com/news/2020/08/17/trump-scott-atlas-coronavirus-doctor-396741Trump elevates Scott Atlas, a doctor with a rosier coronavirus outlookUnlike Deborah Birx and Anthony Fauci, the new senior adviser is telling the president what he likes to hear.By NANCY COOK08/17/2020 04:30 AM EDTDr. Scott Atlas warns against coronavirus overreaction and hysteria, pushes for the reopening of schools and sports leagues, and downplays the need for broader testing to root out the virus.Unlike bigger-name, more circumspect public health officials, who’ve watched their luster dim at the White House, Atlas has become a star adviser in President Donald Trump’s inner circle at a crucial moment during the pandemic.With the virus showing no sign of letting up — the U.S. has recorded roughly 5.4 million Covid-19 cases and 170,000 deaths — and with less than three months to go in an uphill reelection battle, the president is betting that a telegenic physician with a positive outlook, but no expertise in infectious diseases or epidemiology, can change his fortunes.Atlas, upbeat and relentlessly on message that Americans should resume life as much as they can, is the living embodiment of the president’s Covid-is-not-that-big-of-a-deal approach. Where school superintendents and football conference officials see a risk of the virus’ spread this fall, Atlas cautions against too-strict measures. During Fox News appearances, he has downplayed the need for students to wear face coverings or practice social distancing if schools do reopen."It is proven children have no significant risk," he said during a July 15 TV appearance. It’s a line that Trump has parroted but that hasn’t been borne out in districts where in-person learning has resumed: Schools in Georgia, North Carolina and Indiana have had to shut down shortly after starting the year because of positive cases.In private meetings at the White House, Atlas has irritated other aides by arguing against expanded Covid-19 testing. He opposed a proposal championed by Dr. Deborah Birx, the response coordinator for the White House coronavirus task force, to scale up home testing through methods such as saliva tests. And recently, in a task force meeting, he told Dr. Anthony Fauci, the nation’s top infectious disease expert, that science does not definitively support government mandates on wearing masks. (The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention recommends that Americans wear masks when they interact with those outside the home and in instances when social distancing is not possible.)Atlas’ elevation inside the White House comes at a time when Trump aides are trying to give the perception of doing everything they can to fight the virus and find a vaccine roughly 80 days from the election, as the rate of infection climbs and the United States’ testing capacity falls short. Trump has sidelined or lashed out at many of his top health professionals, including Fauci and Birx, and has welcomed the different medical perspective Atlas provides, one senior administration official said.Atlas declined to comment when reached by phone.Critics, including other conservatives and health officials, say he is shading science and facts with a partisan lens to elevate himself and gain power in Republican circles."At the end of the day, this is a problem for Stanford," said one former colleague from the Hoover Institution, the right-leaning think tank at the university where Atlas is a fellow. "Look, we have an administration that is lying about the virus, and they are grasping for anyone in a senior academic role. When they can use that branding and that title, it is instant credibility and that is what the administration is looking for."Judd Deere, the White House deputy press secretary, said in a statement: "We are all in this fight together, and only the media has distorted and diminished Dr. Atlas’ highly acclaimed career simply because he has come to serve the President. Dr. Atlas, like all of the medical experts in the Administration, is working to carry out the President’s number one priority: protecting the health and safety of the American people."Atlas first came to the attention of the Trump administration the way it finds so many top officials: through his appearances on Fox News. His comments on the coronavirus lockdown and the need to reopen the economy and schools caught the attention of the president and several top aides, including Jared Kushner, according to a second senior administration official.A few weeks ago, Atlas officially joined the administration as an adviser, and in a short time he has become a frequent presence in the Oval Office and around the White House complex.He spoke publicly at a White House event about school reopening and appeared at one of the president’s evening briefings, the only medical professional to do so in recent weeks. He has quickly established himself as a voice pushing for the resumption of daily activity, including college football and schools — which Trump advisers and aides see as a key marker of normalcy that will help Trump’s reelection campaign.Far more significantly, he’s part of a tiny group of advisers who meet every morning to chart the daily response to Covid-19, a group that includes long-standing aides like Kushner and Stephen Miller. He has gained influence so quickly that he even helps to prepare the president in the Oval Office for the newly revived evening briefings and makes suggestions for Trump’s opening remarks, according to interviews with six senior administration officials and Republicans close to the White House.Atlas frequently questions or spars with other administration officials about data on the spread of the virus, or the efficacy of the government’s requiring people to wear masks, or the merits of broadening testing among the wider population — all of which other health professionals consider key planks in combating the virus, a sort of Pandemic 101.He has become the president’s go-to Covid-19 doctor, the anti-Fauci, even if he does not have a background in infectious diseases or epidemiology. Instead, his specialty lies in radiology and neuroradiology, subjects he taught for many years as a professor and chief of neuroradiology at the Stanford University Medical Center."There is nothing inherently bad with having a management leader of a task force who is not a subject-matter expert, like an epidemiologist," said Juliette Kayyem, a former top Obama Department of Homeland Security official who was heavily involved in the response to the H1N1 pandemic."Every crisis has brains and muscle," Kayyem added. "You have the scientists who know how to get the vaccine and protect us from the virus, and then you have the people who get things done, but Dr. Atlas doesn’t seem to fit into either. The only thing that will happen is that he will be another impediment to either real science or real action."In addition to his research at the Hoover Institution on health care policy and pricing, Atlas has advised past presidential candidates, including Rudy Giuliani in 2008 and Mitt Romney in 2012. At the White House, he is working as a paid special government employee.Two colleagues from the Hoover Institution praised Atlas’ work as serious and evidence-based."He is a rigorous scientist," said Paul Peterson, a senior fellow at the Hoover Institution and a professor of government at Harvard University with whom Atlas recently wrote an op-ed on reopening schools. "Just look at his prior research. Everything he says is backed up with citations."Michael Boskin, an economics professor at Stanford and a senior fellow at Hoover, added: "Scott is a highly valued colleague. He brings someone from the top of academic medicine’s perspective to health policy, which complements the economists, lawyers and others working on the subject, and since he has joined Hoover, he has been an important part of the discussion in and around health policy."Past colleagues and other health professionals say Atlas is someone who always likes to be in the center of the action and has always been interested in gaining power — and that now includes his position inside the White House.Trump "has found someone who will take him back to 2019 who says, ‘Don’t wear masks. Open the schools,’" said Kayyem, the former Homeland Security official. "We are going through this. We’re not going back."The strategy of see no evil may be working for Trump, but it is not working for America. This is just more of the same."(6) Stop the Panic and end the total Isolation -  Dr. Scott W. Atlashttps://thehill.com/opinion/healthcare/494034-the-data-are-in-stop-the-panic-and-end-the-total-isolationThe data is in — stop the panic and end the total isolationBy Dr. Scott W. Atlas, Opinion Contributor — 04/22/20 12:30 Pm EdtFive key facts are being ignored by those calling for continuing the near-total lockdown.Fact 1: The overwhelming majority of people do not have any significant risk of dying from COVID-19.The recent Stanford University antibody study now estimates that the fatality rate if infected is likely 0.1 to 0.2 percent, a risk far lower than previous World Health Organization estimates that were 20 to 30 times higher and that motivated isolation policies.In New York City, an epicenter of the pandemic with more than one-third of all U.S. deaths, the rate of death for people 18 to 45 years old is 0.01 percent, or 10 per 100,000 in the population. On the other hand, people aged 75 and over have a death rate 80 times that. For people under 18 years old, the rate of death is zero per 100,000.Of all fatal cases in New York state, two-thirds were in patients over 70 years of age; more than 95 percent were over 50 years of age; and about 90 percent of all fatal cases had an underlying illness. Of 6,570 confirmed COVID-19 deaths fully investigated for underlying conditions to date, 6,520, or 99.2 percent, had an underlying illness. If you do not already have an underlying chronic condition, your chances of dying are small, regardless of age. And young adults and children in normal health have almost no risk of any serious illness from COVID-19.Fact 2: Protecting older, at-risk people eliminates hospital overcrowding.We can learn about hospital utilization from data from New York City, the hotbed of COVID-19 with more than 34,600 hospitalizations to date. For those under 18 years of age, hospitalization from the virus is 0.01 percent, or 11 per 100,000 people; for those 18 to 44 years old, hospitalization is 0.1 percent. Even for people ages 65 to 74, only 1.7 percent were hospitalized. Of 4,103 confirmed COVID-19 patients with symptoms bad enough to seek medical care, Dr. Leora Horwitz of NYU Medical Center concluded "age is far and away the strongest risk factor for hospitalization." Even early WHO reports noted that 80 percent of all cases were mild, and more recent studies show a far more widespread rate of infection and lower rate of serious illness. Half of all people testing positive for infection have no symptoms at all. The vast majority of younger, otherwise healthy people do not need significant medical care if they catch this infection.Fact 3: Vital population immunity is prevented by total isolation policies, prolonging the problem.We know from decades of medical science that infection itself allows people to generate an immune response — antibodies — so that the infection is controlled throughout the population by "herd immunity." Indeed, that is the main purpose of widespread immunization in other viral diseases — to assist with population immunity. In this virus, we know that medical care is not even necessary for the vast majority of people who are infected. It is so mild that half of infected people are asymptomatic, shown in early data from the Diamond Princess ship, and then in Iceland and Italy. That has been falsely portrayed as a problem requiring mass isolation. In fact, infected people without severe illness are the immediately available vehicle for establishing widespread immunity. By transmitting the virus to others in the low-risk group who then generate antibodies, they block the network of pathways toward the most vulnerable people, ultimately ending the threat. Extending whole-population isolation would directly prevent that widespread immunity from developing.Fact 4: People are dying because other medical care is not getting done due to hypothetical projections.Critical health care for millions of Americans is being ignored and people are dying to accommodate "potential" COVID-19 patients and for fear of spreading the disease. Most states and many hospitals abruptly stopped "nonessential" procedures and surgery. That prevented diagnoses of life-threatening diseases, like cancer screening, biopsies of tumors now undiscovered and potentially deadly brain aneurysms. Treatments, including emergency care, for the most serious illnesses were also missed. Cancer patients deferred chemotherapy. An estimated 80 percent of brain surgery cases were skipped. Acute stroke and heart attack patients missed their only chances for treatment, some dying and many now facing permanent disability.Fact 5: We have a clearly defined population at risk who can be protected with targeted measures.The overwhelming evidence all over the world consistently shows that a clearly defined group — older people and others with underlying conditions — is more likely to have a serious illness requiring hospitalization and more likely to die from COVID-19. Knowing that, it is a commonsense, achievable goal to target isolation policy to that group, including strictly monitoring those who interact with them. Nursing home residents, the highest risk, should be the most straightforward to systematically protect from infected people, given that they already live in confined places with highly restricted entry.The appropriate policy, based on fundamental biology and the evidence already in hand, is to institute a more focused strategy like some outlined in the first place: Strictly protect the known vulnerable, self-isolate the mildly sick and open most workplaces and small businesses with some prudent large-group precautions. This would allow the essential socializing to generate immunity among those with minimal risk of serious consequence, while saving lives, preventing overcrowding of hospitals and limiting the enormous harms compounded by continued total isolation. Let’s stop underemphasizing empirical evidence while instead doubling down on hypothetical models. Facts matter.Scott W. Atlas, MD, is the David and Joan Traitel Senior Fellow at Stanford University’s Hoover Institution and the former chief of neuroradiology at Stanford University Medical Center.