![]() The McLellan Lab at UT played a significant role in developing the research behind the COVID-19 vaccine, which has saved more than 1 million lives and prevented more than 10 million hospitalizations in the U.S. COVID-19 vaccinesĭuring his presentation, Atlas said COVID-19 vaccines have “serious safety concerns,” including myocarditis in young men, and don’t protect against infection as well as “natural immunity,” or the protection that the body creates after an infection. The policy also states that any university organization that presents a guest speaker on campus must make clear that the organization - not the university - invited the speaker and the views of the speaker do not necessarily represent the views of the university. “Scott's courage and perseverance to argue, provide alternative perspectives, question assumptions, seek better evidence, i.e., the basics of the scientific process, regardless of whether it is right or wrong, is to be commended,” Carvalho said.Ī UT spokesperson responded to a request for comment by pointing to the school’s free speech policies, which state, in part, that freedom of speech is central to the mission of the university and UT will not discriminate on the basis of people’s viewpoints. More: When will COVID-19 be over? How Texas doctors, scientists predict the future of pandemic ![]() Gretchen Whitmer, although he later tweeted that he was not advocating violence.Ĭarlos Carvalho, executive director of the Salem Center for Policy and a UT statistics professor, did not immediately respond to a question about why Atlas was invited to speak at UT, although he praised Atlas and his work during the presentation. He also encouraged Michigan residents in a November 2020 tweet to "rise up" against COVID-19 restrictions on schools and businesses from Michigan Gov. ![]() have died from COVID-19, including nearly 6,000 people between ages 18-29 and 17,450 between ages 30 to 39, according to the federal Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. “Those who are not at risk to die or have a serious hospital-requiring illness, we should be fine with letting them get infected, generating immunity on their own, and the more immunity in the community, the better we can eradicate the threat of the virus.” “We can allow a lot of people to get infected,” Atlas said on a conservative talk show in April 2020. However, on Monday, he denied advocating for COVID-19 to spread without mitigation strategies and said previous reporting by The Washington Post that he advocated for herd immunity was “a lie.” More: Amid funding cuts at UT, Legislature directs $6 million for conservative Liberty Instituteĭuring the beginning of the pandemic, Atlas said that young people should contract the virus while older Americans isolated to generate more immunity within the population. He has previously faced criticism from multiple medical experts, the Stanford Medical School faculty and the Stanford Faculty Senate, which passed a resolution stating Atlas is “promoting a view of COVID-19 that contradicts medical science.” About 20 people watched the talk in-person and a few dozen watched virtually.Ītlas, a radiologist, does not specialize in public health or infectious diseases. The presentation, titled “The SARS2 Pandemic: Will Truth Prevail?” was open to students, staff, faculty and the general public. The Salem Center for Policy at UT’s McCombs School of Business hosted Atlas. ![]() were linked to “lockdowns” and other pandemic safety restrictions, and he said government data around COVID-19 hospitalizations and deaths was exaggerated and flawed. Scott Atlas, a senior fellow at the Hoover Institution, a conservative think tank at Stanford University, also implied that the high number of COVID-19 deaths in the U.S. A former COVID-19 adviser for former President Donald Trump, speaking Monday evening at the University of Texas, falsely told a small crowd that COVID-19 vaccines present serious safety concerns and advocated against inoculating children. ![]()
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