https://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJMp2213920
Good physicians read the NEJM every week. While in medical school and residency you could expect to be quizzed by your attending about its contents at any time and you better have read it. It’s that good a journal.
This week's NEJM continues a tradition dating back to its beginning as the premiere medical journal.
An editorial by Colunbia University's Dr. El Sadr et al is simply outstanding. She articulatly summarizes the incredibly complex evolution of the pandemic in the US.
While mentioning the impact of disinformation and misinformation in her comments about managing COVID now that it is endemic, she fails to identify the single most important thing we need to do to confront, discredit and silence the sources of disinformation.
Most dance around the issue fearing the rabid response these folks typically have.
I think we have no choice. COVID disinformation is a threat to public health and a national security threat. Some of the disinformation is directly tied to foreign entities as was documented by the NY Times.
Disinformation has led to the unnecessary death of 300,000 to 400,000 of our fellow Americans.
22 years ago, an attack on the US left over 3000 and we went to war over it
72 years ago, an attack on the US left some 2500 dead and we went to war over it.
Hundreds of thousands of Americans died in an attack of disinformation and we look the other way. No one has held the sources of disinformation accountable. No one has exposed their fake credentials and embellished resumes.
Freedom of speech has limits. Spreading lies that lead to mass death is not what the Founders were trying to protect.
We need to treat COVID disinformation for what it is, a grave threat to public health and national security.
You mean like when Dr. Fauci said that anyone who took the jab would not get covid; and when he said that the program would help achieve "herd immunity"; even when knowing full well that he was lying?
https://igorchudov.substack.com/p/dr-fauci-knew-covid-vaccines-would
Odd how those claiming "disinformation" the loudest refuse to debate the actual data and only talk of "credentials." Hundreds of thousands of Americans have died due to the greed of pharmaceutical companies pushing a lethal clot shot with the blessing of corrupt accreditation boards sharing in the illicit spoils. Why are the excess deaths greater in the countries that took the most clot shots and always greater in 2022 and 2021 than the previous two years when the actual deadly Covid strains were circulating? That's an inarguable fact, which is exactly why the "experts" refuse to argue against it. They're all in on it or afraid of losing their livelihood. The dam is breaking; these lies are all being exposed now on a daily basis. Give it up, it's getting embarassing now.