Top NIH officials, when asked about the matter, gave no response to the question of whether they support such analyses.
That could prove tragic, said Sandro Galea, the dean of public health at Boston University. “This is a real threat – I’m not minimising that,” Dr Galea said of the coronavirus pandemic. “But our conversation has been a tsunami of deep cultural dive into a particular set of approaches without a nuanced discussion about the uncertainty of the science and the consequences of our actions.”