MedPage Today January 26, 2022
— Milton Packer wonders who can be trusted to make key decisions during a pandemic
We are in the midst of a pandemic, and understandably, no one wants to get seriously ill, no one wants to be hospitalized, and no one wants to die. And most people do not want to infect others, especially if they are loved ones (particularly elderly loved ones).
So, we want to look to knowledgeable people for guidance, and we expect government leaders and health authorities to collaborate in order to make reasoned policy. We hope for answers, and we pray these answers make sense. We assume that both answers and policies will be based on data, on evidence from laboratory or clinical studies, on...