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Trump admin is working to erase the virus from the news before the election…

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Down grading Anthony Fauci in the virus response from the government…

Cutting back Covid-19 staff meetings…

Trump pushing colleges to play football that said they wouldn’t…

Holding off on Virus/Stimulus legislation…

Slowing support for community testing….

Moving to an internal policy of ‘let everyone get it’ for herd immunity…

 

Donald Trump’s biggest liability has been his lack of response to the Covid-19 virus as it infected millions of Americans and killed over a hundred thousand…

And he’s gonna continue to work hard to ignore it …..

And he’s found a new guy to help him do so…

A different approach toward the coronavirus pandemic is taking hold at the White House, as newcomer adviser Dr. Scott Atlas eclipses Dr. Anthony Fauci in influence and President Donald Trump and aides are resigned to the virus’ inevitable spread.

Internal struggles among the medical advisers have divided the White House for weeks, with advisers like Fauci and other members of the task force pushing a forward-leaning stance on coronavirus against resistance from the top down. Now, with two months to go until the election, the White House is focused on reopening the economy and mitigating the virus to a limited extent, or just enough to keep hospitals from being completely overwhelmed.
They’re doing it with the imprimatur of Atlas, a neuroradiologist whose voice within the White House is drowning out task force members the public had come to know and trust. Task force meetings are growing more infrequent, ostensibly because its head, Vice President Mike Pence, is often out of town on campaign trips. When the panel does meet, Fauci may or may not be present, and at least one major policy decision was rendered in his absence when he was under anesthesia having a polyp removed from his vocal cord.
The internal goal is to keep things just under control until a vaccine comes out, two senior administration officials said.
“You can’t stop it!” one senior official said of the internal thinking on the virus.
The President and his White House chief of staff Mark Meadows have increasingly turned to Atlas, a contrarian doctor whose expertise lies in free-market health care and economic policy rather than epidemiology. Atlas, a fellow at Stanford University’s Hoover Institution, joined the White House after he caught Trump’s eye with appearances on Fox News.
Atlas speaks with Trump almost daily, people familiar with the matter said, replacing the briefings he once received from medical experts like Task Force Coordinator Dr. Deborah Birx. And in meetings, Atlas has been unguarded in using his access to Trump to convey what he says are the President’s wishes on the coronavirus response, including reopening efforts and advances in treatments.
On Monday, Atlas denied that he is pushing a “herd immunity” strategy to combat coronavirus (which would involve allowing a majority of the population to get the virus), but an administration official said many of the policies Atlas has pushed internally fall into a similar vein….

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