This is important. Linked is an academic critique of the COVID public health response:

https://www.cambridge.org/core/services/aop-cambridge-core/content/view/7ACD87D8FD2237285EB667BB28DCC6E9/S1935789320002980a.pdf/public_health_lessons_learned_from_biases_in_coronavirus_mortality_overestimation.pdf

Takeaways:

1. Back in March, both the WHO & the NEJM misreported the flu IFR as the CFR, overestimating COVID mortality to Congress and public health officials (X/1)

2. Fear-based public health campaigns cause harmful and the debilitating psychological effects on the population last long after the "threat" is gone...(x/2)

3. Reliance on PCR tests was a flawed choice and COVID mortality data is not reliable and likely overestimated. (X/3).

4. We MUST learn from our mistakes, or we are doomed to repeat them. (X/4)