"So, if they have it already, and they have natural immunity, why would they then suggest themselves to additional risk. "And also many of them, being on the front line have already had COVID. "I think health care workers probably have been exposed to a little more information than the average person," Carson commented. Varney noted that 30% of health care workers have chosen not to be vaccinated. "And when did we get to the point where we mandate that people take part in an experiment?" "This is still an experiment, and wants to risk their kid in an experiment?" he asked. What is unknown, he said, is the long-term effect of the vaccines. "And we don't go through all of these things every year for seasonal flu." "We know that the mortality associated with COVID-19 in children is about the same as it is in seasonal flu," he said. Varney began by pointing to a new Fox News poll finding 51% of parents oppose student vaccine mandates and 43% are in favor.Ĭarson said the poll showed that "those parents are thinking individuals." Ben Carson, the former pediatric neurosurgeon and HHS secretary under Trump, on his view of vaccinating children. "They are using the word science, but they are not acting on science, and people have to at this point become critical thinkers for themselves."Īlso on Friday, Varney spoke with Dr. Safety data on a vaccine typically takes between five and 10 years."Ītlas said there are people in government who are "not acting on the science." "We have a few thousand people in Israel who were followed for 30 days," he said. He noted that there is almost no safety data on boosters. He said a booster shot for COVID-19 "makes sense" for people who are high risk – people with more than two serious chronic illnesses, particularly older people in that category.īut to tell people under 20 or 30, "who are healthy, who have almost no significant risk for a serious illness and almost zero risk for death – to mandate vaccines and then boosters. That means, Atlas said, "it's a personal protection, not really a public protection to get vaccinated."Īnd therefore, he continued, people should be allowed to decide for themselves whether or not to take the vaccine. The data shows the vaccines are good at protecting people from death and serious illness, and the efficacy lasts, according to a recent study from Sweden, said the former Trump adviser.īut after four months, studies show, people who have been fully vaccinated are not protected from becoming infected and from spreading the virus," said Atlas, a senior fellow in health care policy at Stanford University's Hoover Institution and a former professor and chief of neuroradiology at the Stanford University Medical Center. "They have created a misconception about the vaccines," Atlas said. He said nothing would surprise him, but government vaccine mandates have had the effect of undermining confidence in the vaccines. Scott Atlas, who served briefly as a pandemic adviser to President Trump, contended Friday there is no reason for people under 30 who have almost no risk of serious illness or death from COVID-19 to be vaccinated.Ītlas was asked by Fox Business anchor Stuart Varney – after the FDA's approval of booster shots for all adults – whether he thought additional shots for people who now are "fully vaccinated" will be mandated. The group also sent their own letter defending their position from the firm Kaplan Hecker & Fink, which was addressed to Atlas' legal team.
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In recent months, he's made a series of controversial statements, including to push the White House to allow young people to contract the coronavirus in hopes of achieving "herd immunity."
In particular, the authors expressed concern about Atlas advocating against the use of masks and other public health measures. On Thursday, dozens of doctors and researchers from Stanford University emphasized that they won't be silenced after hearing they may face legal action after criticizing the White House's coronavirus advisor Dr.
Scott Atlas speak during a press conference in the Brady Briefing Room of the White House on September 23, 2020, in Washington, DC. US President Donald Trump (L) listens to White House coronavirus adviser Dr. Stanford researchers say they won't be silenced after criticizing Trump's coronavirus advisor Dr.
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