Day 1168: CDC Director Lies to Congress About Masks

Maryanne Demasi reports on CDC Director Rochelle Walensky lying to Congress regarding what she knew when about COVID vaccine efficacy (the truth: nothing), and what the Cochrane review has retracted from its famously damning mask review (the truth: nothing).

To be fair, many innocent bystanders have gotten the impression that Cochrane backed down or apologized and thus masks might still work despite the utter lack of evidence, via nonsense promulgated by Zeynep Tufecki. (For less paywall, see Vinay Prasad's angry recap of Tufecki's confabulations.)

But the Director of the CDC isn't supposed to be just another sheep getting her COVID info from the opinion page of the New York Times. She should know better.

On a completely unrelated topic, RIP former pro football player Chris Smith, 31, who has died of suddenly. We'd like to report more details, but none have been released, not even the date of his death. We are forced to conclude it was particularly vaxxy-looking, such as keeling over of "commotio cordis" at his first XFL practice.