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    What Young, Healthy People Have to Fear From COVID-19

    The White House’s new science adviser says: nothing. The science disagrees.
    by Derek Thompson Sep 07, 2020 5 minutes
    Source: Getty / The Atlantic

    Updated at 11:03 a.m. ET on September 8, 2020.

    A new philosophy of COVID-19 is circulating through the Republican Party and conservative media. If you look closely, you might notice that it resembles an early philosophy of COVID-19 that circulated through the Republican Party and conservative media: If young people get this disease, it won’t be so bad—and it might even be good.

    Scott Atlas, the new White House science adviser and Trump-whisperer, seems to be the ringleader of this emergent corona-stoicism. A neuroradiologist and senior fellow at Stanford University’s conservative Hoover Institution, Atlas is not an expert in epidemiology or infectious diseases. As a Fox News regular, his relevant credentials seem to be more televisual than scientific.

    “It doesn’t matter if younger, healthier people get infected,” Atlas said in a with San Diego’s KUSI news station. “I don’t know

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