But the COVID era, to me, represented a fundamental break in my understanding of how science and public health operated. And in particular, what happened in March of 2020 represented a fundamental break that public health authorities had with the public. But instead, the ethos of public health was that just having the debate at all was a dangerous thing. But don’t public health authorities at some level have to take their own side in the argument. People inside the 10 in public health during the Biden administration were deeply wrong about so many things in public health related directly to public health.

Source: International New York Times January 29, 2026 22:04 UTC