An-Najah News - Twitter has removed a tweet from White House Coronavirus Task Force member Dr. Scott Atlas questioning the effectiveness of mask mandates.
Atlas wrote, “Masks work? NO,” before citing various examples and quotes from health officials pushing back against the protection face coverings can provide. 

Twitter removed it claiming the message violated the platform’s Covid-19 Misleading Information Policy.

Atlas said“Twitter seems to be censoring the science if it goes against their own goals of public indoctrination,” 

Attlas said that his information are based on what Dr. Carl Heneghan, director of the Centre for Evidence-Based Medicine and editor-in-chief of the British Medical Journal’s Evidence-Based Medicine publication earlier said that “It would appear that despite two decades of pandemic preparedness, there is considerable uncertainty as to the value of wearing masks,”.

In a subsequent tweet, Dr. Atlas made it clear he was not arguing against masks, but instead was saying they are only effective in situations where one is around people at a high risk of getting Covid-19, or where one cannot social distance.