| ▲ | ceejayoz 5 hours ago | |
One prominent example would be Surgeon General Jerome Adams's public comments that masks don't work early on. https://www.nytimes.com/2020/02/29/health/coronavirus-n95-fa... (Which apparently stemmed from concern of shortages, but was a seriously bad way to address that.) | ||
| ▲ | suzzer99 5 hours ago | parent [-] | |
The masks thing is 100% accurate. The CDC and WHO kept insisting Covid was being spread by fomites on surfaces long after it was obvious the virus was airborne. They did this because there was already a mask shortage and whatever other political reasons. It was wrong and it eroded confidence. Personally I'll never put a lot of stock in anything they come out with again w/o getting it verified by other sources I trust who know how to interpret medical literature. The ironic thing is the anti-vaxx wellness community never jumps on the CDC being wrong on masks, because they don't believe in masks either. | ||