CNN medical analyst Dr. Leana Wen admitted that the slogan 'follow the science' helped fuel 'distrust' among the public during the COVID-19 pandemic.
CNN medical analyst Leana Wen told CNN on Tuesday that the U.S. has been "overcounting" the deaths and hospitalizations of patients due to COVID-19 and stressed the importance of "transparent reporting" on the actual numbers.and Washington Post contributing columnist who once promoted pandemic lockdowns is now admitting that the slogan promoting medical compliance,"follow the science," actually"fuels distrust" toward the scientific and medical community.
CNN medical analyst Leana Wen admitted in a recent Washington Post column that the mantra"follow the science" helped fuel"distrust" among the public for COVID-19 mandates.Now she is taking aim at the ubiquitous authoritative mantra many physicians, media members, and politicians used to get the public on board with coronavirus mandates.
She began to undermine it, saying,"The slogan has power because of course science matters, and of course we should follow it. But solely relying on science to guide public health decisions misses the complexity of policy deliberations." Additionally, she cited an NBC News polls, saying it"similarly found that trust in the Centers for Disease and Control and Prevention fell from 69 percent at the beginning of the pandemic to just 44 percent by early 2022."
She also claimed that when she"wrote columns agreeing with Biden administration decisions to ease covid mitigation measures, more than 600 people signed a petition labeling me a racist and ableist who promoted eugenics." Essentially, she received backlash from different sides depending on the stance she took.
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