There will be another lockdown: Trump’s Covid advisor Dr Scott Atlas

A senior Covid advisor to President Trump has warned there will be another lockdown in America unless the country conducts an inquiry into its response to the coronavirus. Dr Scott Atlas, who served on the White House Coronavirus Task Force in 2020, told The Telegraph without “public accountability” over lockdowns “the people in power will do this again”. Mr Atlas said: “There will be another pandemic, that is a certainty; Not only that, there will be other reasons to invoke health or danger as a cause for a potential lockdown. We must get this publicly aired.” “Now, what's happening in the United States is in many ways an attempted rewrite of history,” he continued. The comments come as Britain’s Covid inquiry enters into its ninth day. On Thursday, Sir Chris Whitty, the Chief Medical Officer for England, told the inquiry scientific advisors would not have recommended locking down if it wasn’t for ministers suggesting the idea first. Mr Atlas served with fellow scientists Anthony Fauci and Deborah Birx on President Trump’s coronavirus task force, who he frequently came to blows with over the lockdown policy. Subscribe to The Telegraph with our special offer: just £1 for 3 months. Start your free trial now: https://www.telegraph.co.uk/customer/subscribe/digitalsub/3for1/?WT.mc_id=tmgoff_pvid_conversion-subscription_editorial-iniative_03-22_EGW-13_organic_youtube Get the latest headlines: https://www.telegraph.co.uk/ Telegraph.co.uk and YouTube.com/TelegraphTV are websites of The Telegraph, the UK's best-selling quality daily newspaper providing news and analysis on UK and world events, business, sport, lifestyle and culture.