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The only medicine in this category that we know helps reduce mortality is the steroid dexamethasone, and we only know that because of a trial in Britain. Here’s something else we know: the medical establishment, and especially the federal health bureaucracy, have been bizarrely reluctant to consider or test older and cheaper drugs.

As late as April 1, physicians writing in the New England Journal of Medicine—the most prestigious health care publication in the United States—explained, “We know that wearing a mask outside health care facilities offers little, if any, protection from infection…. In many cases, the desire for widespread masking is a reflexive reaction to anxiety

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In contrast, our currently available vaccines lose their power in a matter of months—as Pfizer itself now acknowledges. At the FDA’s meeting on September 17, 2021, William Gruber, the Pfizer executive in charge of vaccine development, said the United States would face more than five million additional Sars-Cov-2 infections if it did not immediately

No matter that it drew its world-changing conclusions on the thinnest possible evidence. It quickly went viral.