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Angela Rasmussen is as outspoken a scientist as you are likely to find. And this year she spoke out a lot. One of many researchers who became celebrities during the COVID-19 pandemic, the virologist at Georgetown University was quoted in hundreds of articles, appeared as an expert on TV and radio, and took to Twitter to put news about mutations or reinfections into context and to call radiologist and top U.S. government adviser Scott Atlas a “gaslighting motherf -er.”
But Rasmussen s messages did not resonate with everyone even in her own family. Split along political fault lines in the Trump era, some of her relatives no longer speak to one another, she says. When one of her aunts ended up in intensive care with COVID-19 in the summer, Rasmussen only found out because a cousin texted her, worried that others in the aunt s household did not feel the need to quarantine and get tested. “Guess what: They all had COVID,” Rasmussen says.
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If you’ve been paying close attention to Dr. Brent Roussin’s press conferences over the last month or so there has been a slight change in tone.
The chief provincial public health officer has suddenly been careful to emphasize balance in health orders between protecting the public from COVID-19 and the unintended impacts of the health orders. While he continues to talk about having the least restrictive orders in place for the shortest amount of time a line that becomes more laughable every time he uses it as we are still in the midst of some of the most restrictive orders in the country that have been in place since November but the slight change is notable.
It s too little, too late, argues Stanford University Professor of Medicine Jay Bhattacharya.
The public health agency s hypervigilant coronavirus response over the past 12-14 months has paved the way for what he calls the institutionalization of hypochondria among the American public. This sort of order should have come long ago, said Bhattacharya during an interview on Just the News AM. I think they re being entirely too cautious by saying, Okay, only if you re vaccinated . People who have had the disease before are also immune. Why shouldn t they be allowed to not wear masks?
There has been very little evidence of outdoor transmission of the disease to begin with, added Bhattacharya, coauthor of the Great Barrington Declaration, a manifesto that urges an alternative COVID-19 strategy focused on protecting those at greatest risk while minimizing disruption and damage to the larger society. The statement has been signed by close to 14,000 medical and p
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