This is the seventh in an eight-article series on “Restoring Trust in Public Health: Lessons from COVID-19.” Four years of the Biden-Harris administration has left Americans rightly skeptical of public health institutions. This series highlights key findings from several congressional oversight reports, including the final report of the U.S. House Select Subcommittee on the Coronavirus Pandemic, and offers lessons for Congress and the new administration on ways to restore trust in public health.
The COVID-19 lockdowns, social distancing rules, and vaccine mandates had devastating effects for all Americans, and some will never recover from the long-term social, physical, and economic consequences they wrought. Many in the scientific community considered these measures excessive, unnecessary, and not based on any kind of scientific data. Yet the public health…
