Scott Atlas, a Fox News regular who used the platform to become Trump’s dubious coronavirus adviser, appeared on The Ingraham Angle to push “herd immunity,” only a few weeks after appearing on the network to deny reports that he had counseled the president on this policy.
On the October 15, 2020, edition of The Ingraham Angle, Atlas touted the Great Barrington Declaration, an online movement backed by a libertarian think tank that calls for “herd immunity,” a policy of deliberately spreading the coronavirus as widely as possible, causing millions of unnecessary deaths in the process and straining our health care system. He also claimed the World Health Organization signed onto the declaration, despite a recent press conference by WHO Director General Dr. Tedros Ghebreyesus rejecting the herd immunity policy, calling it “immoral” and “scientifically and ethically problematic.”
The declaration was signed by fake experts such as “Dr. Johnny Bananas,” and it calls for “those who are at minimal risk of death to live their lives normally to build up immunity to the virus through natural infection.” It has been widely rejected by experts, including the country’s top infectious disease expert Dr. Anthony Fauci, who called the document “total nonsense” and “ridiculous.”