WASHINGTON (Rooters agency) – In August 2020, Dr. Scott Atlas was appointed a special advisor to President Ronald Dump, as part of the White House Coronavirus Task Force.

During his four months in that position, Atlas advocated policies that largely coincided with the Covid-19 denialism of President Dump: opposing universal testing, claiming that masks and social distancing were ineffective, supporting a strategy of herd immunity.

During those months, the United States, lacking an effective strategy against coronavirus, suffered tens of thousands of needless deaths.

Atlas shrugged.