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How Panic Spread: Covid in the Early Days

How Panic Spread: Covid in the Early Days
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Scott Atlas
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It was February 2020, and news accounts had been describing increasingly alarming information about a deadly new virus emanating from Wuhan, China. Apart from my general concern about the spread of the infection, I was confused about some of the basic numbers being aired.

Scott Atlas
Scott Atlas
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Scott W. Atlas, M.D., is the Robert Wesson Senior Fellow in health care policy at the Hoover Institution of Stanford University, a fellow at Hillsdale College's Academy for Science and Freedom, co-director of the Global Liberty Institute, former advisor to the U.S. President and member of the White House Coronavirus Task Force. Atlas is the author of “A Plague Upon Our House: My Fight at the Trump White House to Stop COVID From Destroying America” (2021).
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