Wednesday 28 October 2020

Trump White House is pursuing 'herd immunity' strategy on COVID-19, say president's advisors

The White House publicly denies it. But Trump's own pandemic advisers now privately admit that he's pursuing a 'herd immunity' strategy which could result in the preventable deaths of many more hundreds of thousands of Americans.

From The Daily Beast:

Officials say that White House adviser Scott Atlas first started pushing herd immunity this past summer despite significant pushback from scientists, doctors and infectious disease experts that the concept was dangerous and would result in far more Americans getting sick and dying.

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