The public health establishment has misled the american people, says Defterios. The six foot mandate was based on a single airplane observation about one person who had a different curenovirus, mers or whateverit as and how many rotes away people got sick three days later. And therefore we just decided it's six feet. It was not, it's not science. But i think historians will some day say that he was actually very much in line with w o c d c guidance and the preponderance of public health thinking.
When it comes to the COVID-19 vaccination, is the risk of myocarditis greater than the benefit to a healthy male teen? Is natural immunity really better than vaccination--and were we right to mask the kids? Dr. Vinay Prasad of the University of California San Francisco talks with EconTalk host Russ Roberts about what we learned and didn't learn from COVID so far and how we should handle a pandemic going forward.