Letters from America - 1

Please take US democratic institutions seriously

You may know that the US House of Representatives conducted an enquiry called “AFTER ACTION REVIEW OF THE COVID-19 PANDEMIC: The Lessons Learned and a Path Forward”.

The report of the Select Sub Committee was published on 4th December 2024 (compare that with Hallett Enquiry). The report is long (557) pages and very good - but we will go back to it in detail at a later date. For now, let’s focus on some of the disinformation provided by the attorneys for Dr Francis S Collins, former long-standing boss of NIH, on the topic of masks and the attacks and censorship on our Cochrane review on masks.

The two attorneys wrote to the Committee, and here is that letter.

Tom could not allow the selected quotes (see below) to mislead Congress. The record had to be clarified, as was done when the former CDC Director misled another Congressional Committee thanks to the bumbling Cochrane editors under pressure from influencers:

The CDC Director Misinformed Congress on Cochrane Review A122.

So Tom wrote this letter to a senior staffer on the Subcommittee

13 December 20…