U.S. Covid task force members worried about 'misinformation' Trump received from others

Covid task force members worried about 'misinformation' being shared with Trump Members of Trump's White House Coronavirus Task Force expressed concern over “misinformation” being shared with the president. YahooNews

WASHINGTON — 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.

Among the emails that will be made public at a congressional hearing Thursday morning is one from Deborah Birx, who served as Covid response coordinator under former President Donald Trump. Birx expressed concerns to Anthony Fauci, the director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, and other task force members about Scott Atlas, a radiologist who joined the White House in August 2020 as a special adviser.

Atlas rejected mainstream mitigation measures, such as mask wearing, social distancing and widespread testing, in favor of the establishment of herd immunity as a means of protecting the population from the pandemic.  ...