Proposal to hasten herd immunity grabs White House attention but appalls top scientists

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Proposal to hasten herd immunity to the coronavirus grabs White House attention but appalls top scientists

Maverick scientists who call for allowing the coronavirus to spread freely at “natural” rates among healthy young people while keeping most aspects of the economy up and running have found an audience inside the White House and at least one state capitol.

The scientists met last week with Health and Human Services Secretary Alex Azar and Scott Atlas, a neuroradiologist who has emerged as an influential adviser to President Trump on the pandemic.

When asked for comment, HHS referred a reporter to Azar’s subsequent Twitter statement about the meeting: “We heard strong reinforcement of the Trump Administration’s strategy of aggressively protecting the vulnerable while opening schools and the workplace.”

A senior administration official told reporters in a background briefing call Monday that the proposed strategy — which has been denounced by other infectious-disease experts and has been called “fringe” and “dangerous” by National Institutes of Health Director Francis Collins — supports what has been Trump’s policy for months.

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[NoRoadUntravelled]

1. Seems they've been working to hasten herd immunity for a while now.

Super spreader rallies and Rose Garden parties are perfect for infecting the healthy and killing the vulnerable.

[Beartracks]

2. Trump Admin isn't even "aggressively protecting the vulnerable" under its dumb plan...

... to just let nature take its course. They like the idea of herd immunity because it requires nothing of them. When 3 million Americans die, Trump would just laugh and boast, "We meant to do that! My beautiful plan worked! Oh, and by the way - every one of you who survived owes their life to me!"

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[Solly Mack]

3. Whaa??

the Trump Administration’s strategy of aggressively protecting the vulnerable

Since when? Where?

That has never happened.