We have a lot of self-appointed experts who are medical professionals but like many of us lack an understanding of their limits. As a doctor you think about the individual but in pandemic epidemiology it's very different. Of all the perspectives I've seen Michael Mina speaks really clearly on it. I found Dr Mina was on the pivot podcast and shared the dangers of all the vaccine optimism; why we need to stay disciplined and increasing our testing and tracing; finally why other non-epidemic health professionals perspectives aren't helpful. There's so much conflicting information that doesn't strike me as anti-vax or just bad faith, some people are well-intentioned but a pandemic has different rules and requires a different mentality.
A place to track what I'm reading and learning for my own purposes. Opinions are strong but loosely held. The real challenge is to write coherently quickly, if it becomes too time consuming it won't happen.