Again, I'm not faulting them for not knowing the correct answers up front, but for their totalitarian attitude and apparent antipathy to uncovering the correct answer.
Again, I'm not faulting them for not knowing the correct answers up front, but for their totalitarian attitude and apparent antipathy to uncovering the correct answer.
Yes I have (ACC/AHA/SCAI 2014 Health Policy Statement on Structured Reporting for the Cardiac Catheterization Laboratory). Politics drove much of the decision making re Covid. There is a difference in my mind between initial decisions and the evolution as data became available. Do you honestly believe with US resources a proper study of masking could not have been done? I believe benefits of masking were marginal at best. One of the few randomized studies showed an 11% benefit for surgical masks, none for cloth masks. And yes, by and large I believe Prasad and team's (e.g. Hoag) analyses have been more useful than the US Gov't. Do I believe they were trying to harm? No, but they were inappropriately insensitive to the possibility brought up by credible individuals that harm would result - as it did with education in the young and with individuals losing jobs and businesses based on inaccurate presumptions/data.
Again, I'm not faulting them for not knowing the correct answers up front, but for their totalitarian attitude and apparent antipathy to uncovering the correct answer.
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Yes I have (ACC/AHA/SCAI 2014 Health Policy Statement on Structured Reporting for the Cardiac Catheterization Laboratory). Politics drove much of the decision making re Covid. There is a difference in my mind between initial decisions and the evolution as data became available. Do you honestly believe with US resources a proper study of masking could not have been done? I believe benefits of masking were marginal at best. One of the few randomized studies showed an 11% benefit for surgical masks, none for cloth masks. And yes, by and large I believe Prasad and team's (e.g. Hoag) analyses have been more useful than the US Gov't. Do I believe they were trying to harm? No, but they were inappropriately insensitive to the possibility brought up by credible individuals that harm would result - as it did with education in the young and with individuals losing jobs and businesses based on inaccurate presumptions/data.
https://www.cato.org/policy-analysis/sweden-during-pandemic