Rochelle Walensky, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention director, said "any mask is better than no mask" despite some studies proving otherwise.
Throughout the pandemic, public-health officials have omitted uncomfortable truths, made misleading statements and advanced demonstrably false assertions.
No doubt, officials and organizations promulgating them had a range of motivations — including honorable ones, such as wanting to encourage salutary choices. Yet the subsequent loss of institutional trust may result in harm that far outweighs any short-term policy objectives.
Consider some messages the field has promoted to the public over the last two years and their shaky relationship with the truth.
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Vinay Prasad is a hematologist-oncologist and associate professor of medicine at the University of California, San Francisco. Adapted from City Journal.
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