COVID-19 is a disease that should be taken seriously, but the recent spike in cases shouldn't cause alarm, contends a former department head at Stanford University Medical Center.
Dr. Scott Atlas, now a senior fellow at Stanford's Hoover Institution, said in a Fox News interview that what matters is not how many coronavirus cases there are, but "who gets the cases.
"The cases themselves should not be and were never the focus. It's only the tragic consequences of the cases. When we look at the cases in every state, the overwhelming majority are younger and healthier people," he said.
"We realize we have to wait to have the story play out here, but right now, the cases have been going up for three weeks and we have no increase [in deaths]," he told Trace Gallagher on Monday.
In fact, we have a decrease in death rates. You know, it doesn't matter if you get the illness if you're going to fully recover and be fine from it," said Atlas, the former chief of neuroradiology at the Stanford Medical Center.
"That is what people must understand. For younger healthier people, there's not a higher risk from this disease at all."
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