It says ... paraphrasing, due to copyright. It is primarily about FL's covid strategy.
Shortly after joining the task force, Atlas started encouraging officials to limit testing to only symptomatic people.
He is a neuroradiologist, not an infectious disease expert.
He shared his views with DeSantis and 'several others' in FL.
Atlas and DeSantis toured on 31st August and encouraged less universal testing, more opening of the economy and schools.
Atlas is videotaped saying "The purpose of testing is to stop people from dying, ... When you start introducing closure of schools because people have positive, asymptomatic tests, that’s sort of not the purpose of testing.” DeSantis agreed.
If Atlas and DeSantis' strategy is the cause of the decreased testing in FL, this would reflect the president's June wishes of "slow the testing down, please".
Experts say asymptomatic covid carriers are still contagious.
Miami Beach mayor said "We are flying blind without tests".
A WH spokesperson denies that Atlas said the things that he has been publicly seen to be saying.
A spokesperson for DeSantis says he is doing things his own way (not being influenced).
Atlas is the president's most favoured advisor.
An economist, John Cochrane, says Atlas' words come from an economic strategy.
One of Atlas' first moves was to change CDC testing guidelines (about asymptomatic testing).
This change was later reversed due to scientist objections.
DeSantis has been modelling the president's view of the economy reopening as soon as possible.
A health official said that, following a meeting with DeSantis, it was like DeSantis going to Cape Canaveral and giving a lecture on rocket science.
There is no way to hide the pandemic by not testing - said a senior scholar at John Hopkins.
The WH and Atlas speak positively about the Great Barrington Declaration.
In September, DeSantis was in a public conference with authors of the Great Barrington Declaration. The next day he suddenly reopened the state, no masks required, no restrictions on schools or businesses.
Dr. Scott Atlas push to 'slow the testing down' tracks with dramatic decline in one key state