In Brief: 10 Debunked COVID Myths
Three years after the pandemic began, we’re still learning how wrong the “experts” really were.
Marty Makary is an MD and a professor at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine. He’s been a dissenting voice from the prevailing Science™ narrative regarding COVID for quite some time. And he has put forward the 10 myths told by experts that have now been debunked.
In the past few weeks, a series of analyses published by highly respected researchers have exposed a truth about public health officials during COVID:
Much of the time, they were wrong.
To be clear, public health officials were not wrong for making recommendations based on what was known at the time.
That’s understandable. You go with the data you have.
No, they were wrong because they refused to change their directives in the face of new evidence.
When a study did not support their policies, they dismissed it and censored opposing opinions.
At the same time, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention weaponized research itself by putting out its own flawed studies in its own non-peer-reviewed medical journal, MMWR.
In the final analysis, public health officials actively propagated misinformation that ruined lives and forever damaged public trust in the medical profession.
With that setup, here are the 10 myths:
Natural immunity offers little protection compared to vaccinated immunity
Masks prevent COVID transmission
School closures reduce COVID transmission
Myocarditis from the vaccine is less common than from the infection
Young people benefit from a vaccine booster
Vaccine mandates increased vaccination rates
COVID originating from the Wuhan lab is a conspiracy theory
It was important to get the second vaccine dose three or four weeks after the first dose
Data on the bivalent vaccine is ‘crystal clear’
One in five people get long COVID
Makary explains each of those points in brief detail before concluding:
Public health officials said “you must” when the correct answer should have been “we’re not sure.”
Early on, in the absence of good data, public health officials chose a path of stern paternalism.
Today, they are in denial of a mountain of strong studies showing that they were wrong. …
A mea culpa by those who led us astray would be a first step to rebuilding trust.
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