Category: COVID commission

We Need Truth Commissions to Restore Faith in Public Health

Commentary ​Two blazing political controversies are destroying our trust in the integrity of medicine. One is, thankfully, mostly in the past—the COVID-19 pandemic emergency. The second is ongoing and growing increasingly bitter: How to best care for children who “feel” that they aren’t the sex they were born. These are different debates, but they share…


So Many Questions About the COVID Response

Commentary About 18 months ago, there was some chatter in Washington about a COVID commission that would examine the wild response and evaluate its good and bad features and make recommendations for the future. From the looks of it at the time, it seemed pretty obvious where it was going. In effect, it was going…