⁍ Two senior U.S. public health experts have raised concerns that White House adviser Scott Atlas is providing misleading or incorrect information on the coronavirus pandemic to President Donald Trump.

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⁍ The top U.S. infectious diseases expert, Anthony Fauci, told CNN on Monday he was concerned that information given by Atlas was ‘really taken either out of context or actually incorrect’
The comments came hours after a news report quoted Robert Redfield, director of the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, sharing similar concerns.

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– President Trump says the US is “rounding the corner” on the coronavirus, which has killed nearly 205,000 people worldwide and sickened more than 7 million, but two top public health experts say he’s getting misleading information from a White House adviser. Anthony Fauci, head of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, tells CNN that he’s concerned that coronavirus adviser Scott Atlas’ advice to the president has been “really taken either out of context or actually incorrect,” Reuters reports. Atlas, a neuroradiologist with no background in infectious diseases, has faced scrutiny for downplaying the importance of face masks and his reported views on “herd immunity,” an approach that holds that once enough individuals have been infected and become immune, others are less likely to be infected. The White House insists it is not pursuing such a strategy, although Trump has mentioned it himself and repeated on Monday his view that the United States was “rounding the corner” on the pandemic. Atlas on Monday defended his advice. “Everything I have said is directly from the data and the science,” he said in a statement.