Professor Stephen Maceno says In Covid’s Wake was based on deep research, not pre-set views, to ensure an unbiased take on the pandemic.#COVID
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00:00Now, when it comes to the COVID pandemic, everyone has a view.
00:03So when researching and writing your book, how did you make sure that your own personal
00:07and political views didn't influence the book?
00:10Well, we did quite a lot of research.
00:13I mean, I think that was the main, excuse me, effort there.
00:18And I will say that I did not start off with the views that wind up being advanced in the
00:23book.
00:24I did not expect to find as much doubt expressed in pre COVID pandemic documents about the
00:32measures that were pursued.
00:33I didn't expect to find the amount of messaging from public health officials that didn't seem
00:40to be entirely accurate.
00:44And in so far as we arrive at conclusions that are critical of government measures and
00:50democratic states measures in the United States, these were not things I anticipated, particularly
00:55when I went into the book.
00:56So we had no trouble finding critics along the way, critics of our view, people that
01:03doubted what we said, because most of our colleagues began, as we did, by being skeptical
01:10about some of the claims that we advanced in the book.