Dr. Scott Atlas has publicly shared his resignation letter
Atlas, as a special government employee, had a 130-day detail that reportedly expires this week.
By Alex Nitzberg
Updated: November 30, 2020 - 10:17pm

Dr. Scott Atlas, an adviser to President Trump on the COVID-19 pandemic, is departing from his position and shared his resignation letter on Monday.

Atlas, as a special government employee, had a 130-day detail that expires this week, according to reports.

"I am writing to resign from my position as Special Advisor to the President of the United States," Atlas said in the letter to President Trump dated Dec. 1. "I thank you for the honor and privilege to serve on behalf of the American people since August, during these difficult months for our nation," he wrote.

Atlas was frequently criticized for his position that lockdowns are "extremely harmful" to Americans.

"As you know, I always relied on the latest science and evidence, without any political consideration or influence," he said in the letter. "As time went on, like all scientists and health policy scholars, I learned new information and synthesized the latest data from around the world, all in an effort to provide you with the best information to serve the greater public good. But, perhaps more than anything, my advice was always focused on minimizing all the harms from both the pandemic and the structural policies themselves, especially to the working class and poor."

So far there have been more than 13.5 million COVID-19 cases in the U.S. and more than 267,000 deaths, according to Johns Hopkins University.

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Dr. Scott Atlas Resigns, Takes Victory Lap For Telling Truth About COVID
December 1, 2020
By Jordan Davidson

Dr. Scott Atlas was right about the importance of school reopenings during COVID-19 all along.

Atlas, who first joined the White House coronavirus task force in August, resigned from his position on Monday at the conclusion of his 130-day period as a special advisor to President Donald Trump.

While Atlas began calling for schools to reopen early in the outbreak, citing scientific evidence that children have a low risk of spreading COVID-19 and an extremely low risk of danger if they do get infected, many on the left and in the media criticized him for holding different viewpoints than other health officials such as Dr. Anthony Fauci, who recently flip-flopped on his position concerning school reopenings, falsely claiming he had always supported keeping schools open.

“Dr. Fauci’s remarks seemed like vindication in the opening of the New York schools, as well of your point that you made many months ago,” Fox News’s Tucker Carlson noted in an interview with Atlas Monday evening.

“I was just speaking about the data, as I always did,” Atlas replied. “And it is true that the data was correct then, that children have extremely low risk of a serious illness and do not frequently spread this infection.”

“That was known then, and we also knew the harm, the serious harms to children from closing in-person schools, and nothing has really changed,” he added. “It’s just that some of these things are now being acknowledged.”