'No training in this area': Chris Wallace bashes Scott Atlas reaction to Trump COVID-19 diagnosis

Washington Examiner ^ | October 2, 2020 | Tyler Van Dyke

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EXCERPT

Wallace, who moderated the first presidential debate on Tuesday, reacted during a conversation on Fox News with Sandra Smith: "I'm gonna say something, and folks, I'm just trying to give you the truth. Folks, Dr. Scott Atlas is not an epidemiologist, is not an infectious disease specialist. He has no training in this area at all."

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"There are a number of top people on the president's coronavirus task force who have had grave concerns about Scott Atlas and his scientific bona fides," Wallace continued. "He can't know because the president is just in the earliest stages of this. ... Follow the scientists. Listen to people like Anthony Fauci. Listen to people like Deborah Birx, who have been largely cut off. Listen to the independent people who do not have a political ax to grind, and I frankly don't think Scott Atlas is one of those people."

[ealgeone]

All of a sudden wallace is the expert on everything.

[LIConFem]

And what medical training do you have, Chris?

[G Larry]

Uh...No Chris, it is YOU who "has no training in this area"!!!

You don't need pathogen specific experience to understand virus management and the data surrounding it.

[Skywise]

Uhh... Mr. Wallace, sir... I’d like to point out that you have ZERO, NONE, NADA training in ANY scientific or tech field.

You’re not even qualified to judge this man’s credentials.

[doc maverick]

Wallace is showing his stupidity about the medical profession.
Wallace needs to shut his mouth.

[ConservativeInPA]

All of a sudden wallace is the expert on everything.

Except journalism.

[gov_bean_ counter]

Wallace cautions against listening to people who have a political ax to grime.

Irony is so ironic...

[ealgeone]

true.

[Mr. Jeeves]

Fauci is not a practicing physician - what would he know about treating actual patients? He knows how to say "sciencey stuff" that agrees with liberal policy positions, so he's the Hero of the Year.

If I had COVID-19 I would rather have the advice of Atlas - or Rand Paul - than Fauci.

[ClearCase_guy]

Anyone who is paying attention knows that over 99% of the people who register as a COVID case manage to recover. Scott Atlas is basically saying he thinks the President is likely to be fine. Yeah. 99% probability.

Of course, Chris Wallace doesn’t believe the science and sees the President as a dead man walking.

[JoSixChip]

Done with fox.

[ryderann]

Prissie Chrissie is trying to take the heat off his big failure.

[Irenic]

Chris Wallace gets smaller by the day.

[ProtectOurFreedom]

He certainly doesn’t have any credentials or successes in debate moderation.

[mewzilla]

Or the fact that his family may have an Epstein problem.

[Brilliant]

So Wallace won’t listen to the scientists.

[gov_bean_ counter]

Chris Plante was a freaking riot on this today.

[JLAGRAYFOX]

Chris Wallace has just killed his career in the recent POTUS Debate...what little was left of it. FNC can hang on to him and bring on every TV show they have and it will not change this incompetent piece of scum & vermin, named Chris Wallace.

As for the TV viewer ratings of his boring Sunday FNC TV News Show...there are none worth measuring!!! You need to go to the TV viewer ratings of FNC’s Carlson, Hannity, Ingraham & Fox & Friends...if you want to see real, powerful, meaningful, successful TV viewer ratings!!!

[Major Matt Mason]

Wallace needs to shut up while he's behind. No one with a functioning brain is going to listen to him at this point.