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HHS picks, the House subcommittee report, and pandemic revisionism

Your Local Epidemiologist

In winter 2020, we were losing ~3,500 people per day. But pretending that most public health policies were largely failures isn’t helpful either. In October 2020, the GBD advocated for a distinct approach: isolate the vulnerable while allowing infections to spread among lower-risk members of the population.