A Look at 4 Members of the Coronavirus Task Force

Health Resources and Services Administration administrator Thomas Engels was also added to the Coronavirus Task Force on May 15. He manages an annual budget of $11.9 billion to expand health care access via grants to state and local governments and, in response to the COVID-19 pandemic, administered more than $2.5 billion in funding to health care providers. He also established the Provider Fund Relief to support health care workers.

Dr. Scott Atlas

A critic of COVID-19 lockdowns and a proponent of herd immunity, Dr. Scott Atlas was appointed to the Coronavirus Task Force in August 2020. A fellow at Stanford University’s Hoover Institution, he formerly served as chief of neuroradiology at the university’s medical center and has been a frequent guest on Fox News. In early September, 78 of Dr. Atlas’ former colleagues at Stanford issued an open letter that criticized him for peddling “falsehoods and misrepresentations of science” in his public statements about COVID-19.

Originally published at https://www.larrymuller.info on October 8, 2020.