PART 1 hereToday, the Select Subcommittee on the Coronavirus Crisis, chaired by Rep. James E. Clyburn, released a staff report revealing new evidence of the far-reaching support for a dangerous and discredited herd immunity via mass infection strategy inside the Trump White House. The embrace of this strategy enabled Trump Administration officials to justify forgoing meaningful action to curb the spread of the virus when no vaccines were available and treatments were limited, likely contributing to many preventable deaths in the fall and winter of 2020-2021.
The Select Subcommittee’s investigation has revealed extensive evidence of the Trump Administration’s efforts to undermine the nation’s public health response to the coronavirus crisis in an attempt to benefit the former president politically. As today’s report makes clear, senior officials in the previous Administration embraced a dangerous and discredited herd immunity via mass infection strategy promoted by non-expert advisers like Dr. Scott Atlas and recklessly allowed the coronavirus to infect Americans before vaccines were widely available. This dereliction of duty resulted in significant loss of life that could have been prevented.
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