COVID Task Force Members Worried of ‘Misinformation' Shared With Trump, Emails Show

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Members of the White House Coronavirus Task Force during the Trump administration expressed concerns with each other about “misinformation” being shared with the president, according to emails obtained by a congressional subcommittee and shared with NBC News.

The concerns focused on Dr. Scott Atlas, a special adviser to Trump who rejected mainstream mitigation measures in favor of herd immunityMembers of the White House Coronavirus Task Force during the Trump administration expressed concerns with each other about"misinformation" being shared with the president, according to emails obtained by a congressional subcommittee and shared with NBC News.

“A very dangerous meeting in the OVAL yesterday,” Birx wrote before listing Atlas’ views, which included that “Case identification is bad for the President’s reelection — testing should only be of the sick.” Birx, who is scheduled to testify Thursday before the House Select Subcommittee on the Coronavirus Crisis, also told lawmakers she was pressured to make changes to some of the weekly data reports she sent to state and local officials, prompting her to obscure those recommendations by putting them in"the second part of a sentence" to make them less obvious to White House officials skimming the reports.

 

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