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A Plague Upon Our House: My Fight at the Trump White House to Stop COVID from Destroying America Kindle Edition

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What really happened behind the scenes at the Trump White House during the COVID pandemic?

When Dr. Scott W. Atlas was tapped by Donald Trump to join his COVID Task Force, he was immediately thrust into a maelstrom of scientific disputes, policy debates, raging egos, politically motivated lies, and cynical media manipulation. Numerous myths and distortions surround the Trump Administration’s handling of the crisis, and many pressing questions remain unanswered. Did the Trump team really bungle the response to the pandemic? Were the right decisions made about travel restrictions, lockdowns, and mask mandates? Are Drs. Anthony Fauci and Deborah Birx competent medical experts or timeserving bureaucrats? Did half a million people really die unnecessarily because of Trump’s incompetence?

So far no trusted figure has emerged who can tell the story straight—until now. In this unfiltered insider account, Dr. Scott Atlas brings us directly into the White House, describes the key players in the crisis, and assigns credit and blame where it is deserved.

The book includes shocking evaluations of the Task Force members’ limited knowledge and grasp of the science of COVID and details heated discussions with Task Force members, including all of the most controversial episodes that dominated headlines for weeks. Dr. Atlas tells the truth about the science and documents the media’s relentless campaign to suffocate it, which included canceled interviews, journalists’ off-camera hostility in White House briefings, and intentional distortion of facts. He also provides an inside account of the delays and timelines involving vaccines and other treatments, evaluates the impact of the lockdowns on American public health, and indicts the relentless war on truth waged by Big Business and Big Tech.

No other book contains these revelations. Millions of people who trust Dr. Atlas will want to read this dramatic account of what really went on behind the scenes in the White House during the greatest public health crisis of the 21st century.

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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.

Dr. Atlas investigates the impact of the government and the private sector on access, quality, and pricing in health care, global trends in health care innovation, and key economic issues related to the future of technology-based medical advances. He is a frequent policy advisor to policymakers and government officials in the United States and other countries. He has served as Senior Advisor for Health Care to several numerous candidates for president, as well as counseled members of the US Congress on health care, testified before Congress, and briefed directors of key federal agencies. From July to December, 2020, he served as a Special Advisor to President Trump and as a member of the White House Coronavirus Task Force.

Before his appointment at the Hoover Institution, he was Professor and Chief of Neuroradiology at Stanford University Medical Center for fourteen years. He is the author of numerous books, including In Excellent Health: Setting the Record Straight On America’s Health Care, and most recently Restoring Quality Health Care: A Six-Point Plan for Comprehensive Reform at Lower Cost. He is also the editor of Magnetic Resonance Imaging of the Brain and Spine—the leading textbook in the field that has been translated into several languages, now in its 5th edition. His publications and interviews have appeared worldwide.

Dr. Atlas has received many awards and accolades from leading institutions and societies all over the world in recognition of his leadership in policy and medicine. He was awarded the 2021 Freedom Leadership Award, Hillsdale College’s highest honor, “in recognition of his dedication to individual freedom and the free society.” He also received the 2011 Alumni Achievement Award, the highest career achievement honor for a distinguished alumnus from the University of Illinois in Urbana-Champaign. In the private sector, Atlas is a frequent advisor to start-up entrepreneurs and companies in life sciences and medical technology. He received his MD degree from the University of Chicago School of Medicine.

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Scott W. Atlas, M.D. is the Robert Wesson Senior Fellow in health care policy at Stanford University's Hoover Institution.

Dr. Atlas investigates the impact of government and the private sector on health care access, quality, and pricing, global trends in innovation, and key economic issues related to technology-based medical advances. He is a frequent policy advisor to policymakers and government officials in the United States and in other countries. He has served as Senior Advisor for Health Care to several numerous candidates for President, as well as having counselled members of the US Congress on health care, testified before Congress, and briefed directors of key federal agencies. From July to December, 2020, he served the nation as a Special Advisor to the President and a member of the White House Coronavirus Task Force.

Before his full-time appointment in 2011 at Hoover Institution, he was Professor and Chief of Neuroradiology at Stanford University Medical Center for 14 years. Dr. Atlas is the author of numerous books, most recently “A Plague Upon Our House: My Fight at the Trump White House to Stop COVID from Destroying America” (Post Hill Press). His previous books include “Restoring Quality Health Care: A Six-Point Plan for Comprehensive Reform at Lower Cost” (Hoover Press), “In Excellent Health: Setting the Record Straight On America’s Health Care” (Hoover Press), "Reforming America’s Health Care System" (Hoover Press), and "Power to the Patient: Selected Health Care Issues and Policy Solutions" (Hoover Press). He is also the editor of “Magnetic Resonance Imaging of the Brain and Spine” – the leading textbook in the field that has been translated into several languages, now in its 5th edition.

Dr. Atlas has received many awards and accolades from leading institutions and societies all over the world in recognition of his leadership in policy and medicine. He was awarded the 2022 Encounter Prize for Advancing American Ideals, explained as follows: “Standing up to injustice and facing down the madding crowd of conformity requires enormous patience, equilibrium, insight, and courage—the most important virtue, Aristotle observed, because without it none of the other virtues can flourish. The Encounter Prize for Advancing American Ideals pays tribute to individuals who effectively embody this rare combination of virtues in their lives and work.” He also received the 2021 Freedom Leadership Award, Hillsdale College’s highest honor, “in recognition of his dedication to individual freedom and the free society,” the 2021 Conservative Partnership Institute Freedom Fighter of the Year Award, CPI’s highest honor, "bestowed upon an individual for their courage and dedication to truth and liberty" and the 2011 Alumni Achievement Award, the highest career achievement honor for a distinguished alumnus from the University of Illinois in Urbana‐Champaign. He has been an ad hoc member of the Nominating Committee for the Nobel Prize in Medicine and Physiology for several years. He was named by his peers in The Best Doctors in America every year since its initial publication, as well as in regional listings, such as Best Doctors in New York and Silicon Valley's Best Doctors. In the private sector, Atlas is a frequent advisor to entrepreneurs and companies in life sciences and medical technology. He received his MD degree from the University of Chicago School of Medicine.

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Customers find the book extremely informative, unbiased, and full of startling and revealing anecdotes. They describe it as a great, thought-provoking, and disturbing read. Readers praise the writing style as well-written, easy to read, and factual. However, some feel there's too much repetition.

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Customers find the book extremely informative, interesting, and unbiased. They say it's full of startling and revealing anecdotes of dysfunction in D.C. and the Trump White House. Readers also mention the content is too important to get hung up on minor details.

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Customers find the book great, thought-provoking, and interesting. They say it's the most important book they'll read about the COVID-19 era.

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Customers find the writing style well-written, easy to read, and factual. They also say it's beautifully done and easy to follow and understand what Dr. Atlas is saying.

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Customers find the account amazing and great. They say it gives them a look inside the virus pandemic.

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J. Stewart

TRUTH with real science

Reviewed in the United States on May 12, 2024

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This book is excellent! It is real history, science, and reason. This book should be taught in school. This book documents one of the main problems in US history. This problem is that when an issue becomes political, truth and morality no longer matter. Only the party line (agenda) matters. Truth, science, reason mean nothing to political correctness. In the task force meetings, Dr. Atlas would bring scientific studies and reasoned arguments. No one disputed him. All they did was the easiest job in the world: doubt and skepticism. It takes no work to doubt and be a skeptic. Zero! Here is a quote from page 149 by Fauci, "Well, what if we aren't totally sure?" How much work did it take to ask this question? Zero! Dr. Atlas did the work, and they didn't listen. Shame on them. Shame on the mainstream media news spewing only lies out of their ignorance. Mainstream news media is dead.

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David S. Gfiffin

Outstanding and Revealing!

Reviewed in the United States on January 20, 2022

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I have been studying the Covid-19 epidemic closely the past couple of years, and in looking far behind the curtain of the contrived propaganda and controlled narrative. This book by Dr. Scott Atlas provides deep insight into the shocking mismanagement of the US Covid-19 situation by Anthony Fauci and Deborah Birx - who I would hesitate to prefix with the title of Dr. It has now become clear that they were much more about egocentric blind dogma, over clear minded science and rigorous analysis. The degree of their ineptitude is dumbfounding - and which has done untold damage to the US populace. The vicious and divisive main stream media did everything they could to tarnish and smear Scott Atlas' outstanding reputation and credentials. And all flying in the face of his concerted efforts to try and bring reason and sense to the Fauci / Birx misguided orthodoxy. He strikes me as being a hero, and of someone who cares deeply about humanity. His style of writing is inviting and at times page turning. Truth ultimately has a way of prevailing, in the end. I am grateful for this book, and the awareness it is bringing to what really happened in the 2020 & 2021 Covid era.

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Dr Atlas faced an uphill battle.

Reviewed in the United States on September 28, 2024

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At the beginning of the Scamdemic, there was some mention that the reaction to Covid was politically motivated. This helps put all of those pieces together. Had Trump had advisors who had the health of the nation at heart instead of Fraudci, Brix and the media, who had their personal non-scientific agenda, Trump wouldn't have lost in 2020.

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ed james

Shocking revelations.

Reviewed in the United States on August 22, 2024

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This book reveals the unbelievable depth that our government and governments worldwide will descend to in order to conceal their lies and evil intent.

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Rogier F. van Vlissingen

Plain old-fashioned medical common sense amidst the rona chaos

Reviewed in the United States on February 9, 2022

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If you want to untangle what was going on in the Trump White House during the Corona crisis, it is more like an episode of Yes! Prime MInister. Atlas represents a more down to earth, common-sense medical approach that would have provided a rational approach instead of the incredibly self-destructive hysteria of the Birx-Fauci-Redfield troika.
Having said that, it is also shocking to read the disastrous food habits of Dr. Scott Atlas, in the middle of a would-be pandemic where 2/3rds of deaths have 6+ comorbidities, and closer to 95% have at least 4 comorbidities. All of the comorbidities are induced by diet and lifestyle, and are perfectly preventable with diet and lifestyle. With a lifestyle medicine approach to public health, those "comorbidities" can all be prevented or reversed, and a whole foods, plant-based diet would be the first step and effectively 80% of the work.
Finally, this book still gives the benefit of the doubt to the vaccines. That is really a separate story.

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Dee Arr

Kafka meets Alice in Wonderland

Reviewed in the United States on December 20, 2021

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During our office discussions concerning the pandemic, more than once one of us wished we were privy to the inside knowledge of what was really going on and how were the decisions being made. Early on we had looked at some of the stats and realized that while the virus was dangerous, the percentages of people dying were not as high as the media made it seem, and certain age groups either had a high percentage and did not die from COVID-19 or it was incredibly dangerous to become sick.

Dr. Scott Atlas was hired by the Trump Administration to be a policy advisor and to examine the ramifications of any directives the Task Force suggested. His expectations seemed to be that everyone would work together, being that COVID was health danger and a priority for the United States as well as the world. Dr. Atlas was shocked to see that this was not the case. Worse, there was no logical examination of the facts, and thus the Task Force worked against the vision of President Trump but also ignored the data which would have offered a clear path to follow in order to lower the number of cases and thus protect American citizens.

The author will identify all the issues that kept the Task Force from doing the best job it could. This includes identifying the people who controlled the final message coming out of the White House. Even President Trump was not effective in some areas.

What bothered me most was the approach Dr. Atlas took toward the media. He mentioned numerous times that he could not understand why the press was so brutal, and I was happy to see he corrected that by addressing the partisan viewpoints and outright lies when his worked was maligned or misrepresented. For me, it filled in some of the blanks that I wasn’t aware of and confirmed other facts that I had deduced. Even now, there continue to be egregious errors in the way the pandemic is being handled as people like Dr. Fauci refuse to examine the facts and use common sense and logic to come up with a successful plan. As Dr. Atlas states, we will never eradicate the virus but we can take great strides in protecting our citizens and ensure the solutions developed do not make the situation worse. Five stars.

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Monocled Libertarian

An important behind the scenes glimpse into how politics corrodes science.

Reviewed in Canada on April 29, 2024

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I discovered Dr. Atlas very early on in the pandemic along with several other renowned scientists. Their sound and logical approach to the pandemic was unfortunately ignored by decision makers who decided to put their trust in health bureaucrats and scientists armed with specious mathematical models. The result was an absolute catastrophe resulting in one of the biggest unforced error in medical history. That is, the virus didn't lockdown nations - we did out of pure fear operating in a moral panic induced by fear mongering bad science. One too many scientists and experts acted in bad faith either through incompetence, financial gain or addiction to attention. Very little was done to keep things in proper perspective to avoid scaring people. Instead, people like the mysterious Birx and bureaucrat Fauci (and people like Tam here in Canada) felt that the only way to get compliance was through fear which is not only unethical and unscientific but outright immoral.

Atlas was a voice of science and reason but was unfortunately overwhelmed and, well, over ruled due to political machinations. There was no room for truth and integrity. Or science and data for that matter.

It was all pseudoscientific voodoo nonsense. From social distancing to masking.

Atlas served his country well and was ain important voice among those who refused to consider overall public health. Up to 2020, every measure undertaken was not recommended. All of a sudden, it became the prevailing method. Why? What happened? This needs to be investigated.

And if you think lessons were learned think again. My fear is the same people who ushered in disastrous restrictions are retooling and figuring ways to be even more draconian next time out. The hammer wasn't heavy enough in 2020 in their minds.

I have no idea how to defend against this other than to be aware and to strengthen our laws protecting civil liberties. The rise of the medical technocrat is upon us.

Highly recommended book.

grafstefan

Deep inside into corrupt media and politics

Reviewed in Germany on February 3, 2022

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This book is important and necessary because it reveals how science and public health have been abandoned for the mere purpose to interfere in the presidential elections an avoid the re-election of Trump. Scott Atlas, as a Washington outlier, is an independent, competent and trustworthy voice to shed light over these malicious shenanigans.

V. Schappert

The sordid tale of why the U.S. Government went down the destructive path it did

Reviewed in Canada on December 27, 2021

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Dr. Atlas was at the White House between about July 2020 through November 2020, so this book covers that timeframe in the decadent ruin that is Washington, D.C., plus a few months' prior when Dr. Atlas tackled the pandemic outside of government. So this is a pretty narrowly-focused book geopolitically (USA); functionally (perspective of a government outsider within the U.S. federal government); and in time (the bulk of the narrative taking place in the run-up to the 2020 presidential election). If you want to view things through a wider lens, I strongly recommend Alex Berenson's "Pandemia".

To me the unquestionable value of this book is describing in depth the cast of characters (mainly villains and idiots) who ran the U.S. government's response to the corona pandemic. Sadly, in telling this story, it will also depress you with how little an actual expert like Dr. Atlas could do to right things once the train was off the rails.

You see how the interplay between an angry, malevolent, media and an administration desperate to salvage a re-election led to disastrous decisions, such as: failing to sideline the Birxs and Faucis of the world; and entrusting the detail work on the pandemic to a vice president who either would not or could not keep his Task Force's messaging and policy consistent with the president's policy.

When you see up close what a tire fire the whole thing was—from the perspective of someone who seems at once loyal, sober, and fair-minded—you realize that much of the nightmare we are still living through more than a year later isn't part of any grand conspiracy. It traces back to the period of March 2020-November 2020 and the repeated decision, made day after day and month after month, to entrust massive powers to "hard-working" yet mediocre career bureaucrat "doctors" who were all-in on lockdowns from day 1, and whose primary skill is in stage managing character assassinations through a compliant D.C. media.

slim one

Poignant perspective on a painful period.

Reviewed in Canada on December 16, 2021

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Thanks, Dr. Atlas, for sharing your experiences. Thanks, for trying to offer a reasoned perspective and alternative approach. Thanks for detailing the struggles encountered besides the building evidence in support of your suggestions. Thanks for being principled. Most of all, thanks for trying. Your service and efforts are appreciated.

Hassan Hawash

I enjoyed reading an insider's account of what is going on with regard to this pandemic.

Reviewed in Canada on January 5, 2022

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I liked this book because I felt that there are views at the top that don't agree with the dominant narrative. There must be more and more voices like Dr. Scott Atlas' that just don't get a chance to heard due to flagrant censorship.

This book resonated with what I have felt throughout this pandemic. The oppressive measures are punishing for so many leading to the conclusion that the cure is worse than the disease which Dr. Scott Atlas does touch on.
He shares with us with great passion his experiences during what was almost a four-month term as a health policy advisor to President Trump in the last segment of his presidency. Atlas found himself stymied despite all his hard data evidence supporting his stance to say lockdowns and facemasks, in particular, flew in the face of what many of the leading voices in scientific circles were saying as far as the efficacy of lockdowns including school closures, restrictions on movement and masking. He came to find that the task force was driven by two career medical bureaucrats in the names of Dr. Anthony Fauci and Dr. Deborah Birx. It eventually came to his attention that one compelling reason why alternative views other than the dominant prevailing narrative is that no one wanted to upset or offend these two drivers of the alarmist policies Americans have had to endure.

President Trump promoted opening society and aimed for focused protection. The opposition was vociferously vitriolic practically speaking toward anything Trump attempted to put forward according to Atlas. The hostility toward the former president was so palpably in favour of a manipulation of the dominant narrative controlled by a powerful coalition of elites in politics, academia, media and Big Tech. They have attempted to control the masses through their fear by putting out context free scary numbers and discrediting the call to end the draconian lockdown policies and demonizing those calling for focused protection and reopening.

In a parting thought, I wish Atlas had included an index and a bibliography with his treatise although he did highlight studies and names of prominent scientists who are on board with his stance. I believe he could have gone further with regard to the question of the ostensible necessity of vaccines for those at very low risk especially for the very high rate of recovery from covid19, but perhaps that would have taken the text in whole other direction.

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