Michael: I am very aware of the pain that 10 million unemployed Americans (maybe 15 million now, we’ll see Thursday) are suffering for a “pandemic” that now appears unlikely to kill many more people than a bad flu season. Maybe. I’m not going away and I’m not backing off. https://twitter.com/powellnyt/status/1247669275420221442

The media - including @nytimes - has been bizarrely eager to cause panic throughout the last month, and the costs have been very real. If my voice has helped raise questions, I’m grateful to anyone who’s listened.

And I am grateful to everyone who has shared information with me and continues to do so; I do my very best to put out only accurate o data, government-sourced where possible. The fact that I’ve been forced into this position is a reflection on the media’s groupthink.