Jay Bhattacharya MD PhD

In this book, historian and podcaster Dr. Woods collects a selection of updates about COVID from his daily newsletter. This lets you see the contemporary claims from the mainstream press and public health sources and how, even then, their claims didn't track reality.

Time and time again, you see that differences in mandatory mitigation strategies (masks, avoiding large gatherings, etc.) didn't result in meaningful differences in outcomes. Every time the restrictions were lifted and so called "super spreader" events occurred, the press predicted mass death. Weeks later, when that spike in hospitalizations and deaths didn't manifest, the press was focused on the next super spreader concern and never circled back to see if their predictions were right.

This book is chock full of charts showing regional outcomes tracked each other closely, even when one county (or state) had wildly different policies than its neighbor.

For those of us that have forgotten just how bad things were, this book is a must have.… (mehr)