Shifting Sands: Unsound Science & Unsafe Regulation. Report #3: Keeping Count of Government Science--The Confounded Errors of Public Health Policy Response to the COVID-19 Pandemic
- Resource Type
- Reports - Evaluative
- Authors
- S. Stanley Young; Warren Kindzierski; David Randall; National Association of Scholars (NAS)
- Source
- National Association of Scholars. 2023.
- Subject
- Public Health
COVID-19
Pandemics
Failure
Federal Regulation
Disease Control
Public Agencies
Federal Government
Public Policy
Scientific Research
- Language
- English
"Shifting Sands: Confounded Errors" focuses on failures by the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) and the National Institutes of Health (NIH) to consider empirical evidence available in the public domain early in the pandemic. The report finds compelling circumstantial evidence that lockdowns and masking mandates imposed during the pandemic had no proven benefit to public health outcomes. [Introduction by Peter W. Wood.]