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Anthony Fauci failed during the coronavirus responseWhat does the Bendavid and Patel paper mean?
It means that Anthony Fauci and a handful of other leaders globally who set global pandemic policy did so in a way that we learned absolutely nothing and most likely (at least by sheer number of model results), did nothing to change COVID spread.
Here is what the authors write, “The concentration of estimates around a zero effect weakly suggests that government responses did little to nothing to change the COVID-19 burden.”
We should be embarrassed that we used the police state to enforce border closures, ticket people in parks, arrest churchgoers, and folks refusing to wear a cloth mask, while we had no credible evidence these policies helped others, and while Fauci and others who advocated for them, made literally no effort to test if they work.
All lives were changed by the pandemic response and Bendavid and Patel show that for most of the big questions we will never— not now or ever— have conclusive proof they helped or hurt.
That is Anthony Fauci’s greatest failure. The man who controlled 5 billion dollars in research funding, who called himself a scientist, who went on TV 20 times a day to tell us what would help, and who ran zero randomized studies of any non-pharmacologic intervention.
The COVID19 pandemic did not happen during the middle ages, but we leave it just as ignorant as our ancestors who left the Black Death.
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