‘Follow the science' isn't a Covid-19 strategy


  • Focus
  • Sunday, 20 Sep 2020

Just a slogan: Like Trump, Biden has put forward much of a plan to manage Covid-19.

Anyone observing President Donald Trump's handling of the coronavirus pandemic in the US would have good reason to wonder if his administration ever had much of a strategy for handling it.

Recently, the press accused one of his medical advisers, Scott Atlas, of promoting a "herd immunity strategy" amounting to letting Covid-19 run rampant. Atlas denies this, but a more important issue is what our strategy is, or should be, and what Joe Biden's strategy would be if he's elected.

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