"Kevin Bass is an MD/PhD student at a medical school in Texas. He is in his 7th year.

The views expressed in this article are the writer's own."

Doesn't seem to be a very credible article. There's an awful lot of pontificating about the disastrous outcomes of COVID-era policies without any supporting evidence. The whole thing reads a bit like a non-sequitur.

Also, there's an awful lot of talk about "we in the scientific community" for someone who is still in medical school.

Author claims "resulted in thousands if not millions of preventable deaths." but never elaborates on what these deaths were caused by in his view or what should have been done differently. Also hindsight is 20/20. Since this was a novel situation, in hindsight we will always know what should've been differently, that doesn't mean it was wrong to take the measures that were taken at the time. But it doesn't seem that the author would care about things like that.

This will quickly become new copy/paste material for the anti-vax crowd. Perhaps beating out the often cited "Nuremberg Code"?

F&ck Newsweek for allowing this sh$t on their site. I agree with chiefalchemist.