‘Everything he says is false’: CDC director alarmed by new Trump coronavirus adviser

Published September 28, 2020 3:26pm ET



Dr. Robert Redfield, the director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, has become alarmed at the influence that new coronavirus adviser Scott Atlas has over President Trump.

“Everything he says is false,” Redfield said during a phone call made in public on a commercial flight and overheard by NBC News.

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