Among epidemiologists, consensus now exists that it was inaction, not overreaction, that helped create the worst public health crisis in a century. “They can confuse people and undermine the consistent messaging needed for public health. Politicians can also misuse these debates to undermine public health policies they don’t like. But it can be disastrous in public health, where lives depend on people’s willingness to trust those same experts. Along the way, he began to harbor doubts that some of the world’s foremost medical experts had evidence to back up their advice.

Source: Washington Post December 16, 2020 12:01 UTC