Pandemia: How Coronavirus Hysteria Took Over Our Government, Rights, and Lives

The process is then repeated over and over. If the original sample contained coronavirus RNA, each thermal cycle doubles the amount of DNA.

a few public figures and journalists—most notably Tucker Carlson and Joe Rogan—continued to raise questions about the vaccines. What they had in common was not conservatism but a populist wariness of government bureaucracies, public health experts, and Big Pharma.

Since its invention in 1984, PCR testing had become crucial to biotechnology research.

A week later, the bombshell Northwell Health study in the Journal of the American Medical Association showed that ventilators had not only not been lifesavers but had also likely killed some patients. But news organizations simply ignored the fact they had been wrong about ventilators. When the ventilator shortage didn’t materialize, they moved on

Meanwhile, China’s experience breaking the epidemic in Wuhan appeared to offer a way out. An influential paper from Xihong Lin, a biostatistician at Harvard University’s School of Public Health, showed that the lockdown in Wuhan had essentially ended the spread of the virus immediately. Before January 22, the replication rate of the virus was 3.88,

Fauci could have encouraged the National Institutes of Health to focus on examining older off-patent medicines such as HCQ—or even more basic interventions, such as encouraging people to take vitamin D. Instead, he focused on finding shiny new drugs such as remdesivir.

But in reality, exponential growth suddenly stopped in mid-March, a week before the lockdown went into effect on March 22. That’s why additional hospitalizations in New York City slowed so quickly after March 25. We still cannot be sure why infections slowed so suddenly. But the one thing we can know for sure is that lockdowns do not deserve the cr

Then, on August 31, two top FDA vaccine regulators said they were leaving the agency.71 Two weeks later they cosigned a letter to The Lancet, perhaps the world’s top medical journal, saying they did not believe boosters were needed for most people. “The currently available evidence does not show the need for widespread use of booster vaccination,”

Meanwhile, Pfizer and BioNTech reported their drug caused lymphocytes to drop temporarily in volunteers in an early clinical trial—a sign the vaccine might leave people more open to infection in the days after it was given.