Episode Details

Donald G. McNeil, author of the new book, "The Wisdom of Plagues," discusses where we went wrong on COVID policies, as well as his outrageous termination at the NY Times.

Here is folder with PDFs of all the docs: https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1wfTdozvW-vpuot2XXkwnQT9GG717txf3?usp=sharing

https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/health/2020/02/17/nih-disease-official-anthony-fauci-risk-of-coronavirus-in-u-s-is-minuscule-skip-mask-and-wash-hands/4787209002/

https://web.archive.org/web/20220112073517/https://www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/2019-ncov/prevent-getting-sick/types-of-masks.html

https://www.ualrpublicradio.org/2021-01-26/some-european-countries-move-to-require-medical-grade-masks-in-public

https://bmcpublichealth.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/s12889-021-11688-7

https://www.nytimes.com/2022/01/14/health/cloth-masks-covid-cdc.html

https://reason.com/volokh/2023/01/10/no-lockdown-sweden-seemingly-tied-for-lowest-all-causes-mortality-in-oecd-since-covid-arrived/

https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-022-31441-x

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/dec/17/king-sweden-failed-covid-strategy-rare-royal-rebuke-lockdown-hospitals-cases

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-52903717

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/may/24/sweden-wrong-not-to-shut-down-says-former-state-epidemiologist

https://www.latimes.com/business/story/2022-03-31/sweden-covid-policy-was-a-disaster

https://www.technologyreview.com/2020/10/19/1010646/campaign-stop-covid-19-vaccine-trump-election-day/

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8783302/

https://academic.oup.com/jid/article/228/12/1720/7103191