Paul Elias Alexander

Paul Elias Alexander is a Canadian health researcher and a former Trump administration official at the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. He attracted attention in 2020 when, as an aide to HHS assistant secretary for public affairs Michael Caputo, he participated in efforts by the administration to control COVID-19 messaging from federal scientists and public health agencies. Within the administration, Alexander advocated for a strategy of mass infection of the public with COVID-19 to build herd immunity. He advocated for colleges to be open with the goal of mass infecting infants, kids, teens, and young adults. He sought to muzzle federal scientists and public health agencies to prevent them from contradicting the rhetoric coming from the Trump administration.