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Donald G. McNeil - Surviving COVID, Pandemics, and Working at the New York Times.

Donald G. McNeil - Surviving COVID, Pandemics, and Working at the New York Times.

Donald G. McNeil - Surviving COVID, Pandemics, and Working at the New York Times.

The Comedy Cellar: Live from the Table

January 31, 20241h 31m

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Show Notes

Donald G. McNeil, author of the new book, "The Wisdom of Plagues," discusses where we went wrong on COVID policies, as well as his outrageous termination at the NY Times.


Here is folder with PDFs of all the docs: https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1wfTdozvW-vpuot2XXkwnQT9GG717txf3?usp=sharing


https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/health/2020/02/17/nih-disease-official-anthony-fauci-risk-of-coronavirus-in-u-s-is-minuscule-skip-mask-and-wash-hands/4787209002/


https://web.archive.org/web/20220112073517/https://www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/2019-ncov/prevent-getting-sick/types-of-masks.html


https://www.ualrpublicradio.org/2021-01-26/some-european-countries-move-to-require-medical-grade-masks-in-public


https://bmcpublichealth.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/s12889-021-11688-7


https://www.nytimes.com/2022/01/14/health/cloth-masks-covid-cdc.html


https://reason.com/volokh/2023/01/10/no-lockdown-sweden-seemingly-tied-for-lowest-all-causes-mortality-in-oecd-since-covid-arrived/


https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/


https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-022-31441-x


https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/dec/17/king-sweden-failed-covid-strategy-rare-royal-rebuke-lockdown-hospitals-cases


https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-52903717


https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/may/24/sweden-wrong-not-to-shut-down-says-former-state-epidemiologist


https://www.latimes.com/business/story/2022-03-31/sweden-covid-policy-was-a-disaster


https://www.technologyreview.com/2020/10/19/1010646/campaign-stop-covid-19-vaccine-trump-election-day/


https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8783302/


https://academic.oup.com/jid/article/228/12/1720/7103191