The article below shows how much the "scientific consensus" has changed since the COVID years of 2020-2023.

Jay Bhattacharya's Confirmation Hearing Proves the Lockdown Skeptics Won 3/6/25

Trump's nominee for NIH director once stirred major controversy for criticizing lockdowns, mask mandates, and school closures. Yesterday, Senate Democrats didn't even raise the issue.

Tomorrow will be the fifth anniversary of then-New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo's first statewide emergency declaration issued in response to COVID-19, setting up a long series of orders shuttering down businesses, closing schools, and ordering people to stay in their homes. When enacted in early March 2020, Cuomo's order was the consensus policy response to the pandemic, endorsed by the first Trump administration and quickly replicated by most red state governors.