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Former Trump COVID adviser Dr. Scott Atlas interviews with House coronavirus subcommittee
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Former Trump COVID adviser Dr. Scott Atlas appeared for a voluntary interview before the House subcommittee on the coronavirus pandemic earlier this month and told Fox News that he sought to "have the facts clarified" about his role and influence on policies made by the White House's task force.
"What the facts are is that I was asked by the president to help during the biggest health care crisis in a century and the reason I would, and the reason I said yes, is because the policies of Dr. Birx and Dr. Fauci were failures," Atlas told Fox News. "People were dying — including the known high-risk people, and the infection was not prevented from spreading, and meanwhile, the Birx-Fauci lockdowns and mandates and restrictions were enormously harmful, particularly on working-class families, and extremely destructive to our children."