Who’s Really Twisting the Covid Record?

Some on the left accuse conservatives of rewriting coronavirus history. Figures such as Anthony Fauci have been doing so in full public view.

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Dr. Anthony Fauci, former director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases and former chief medical adviser to President Biden, testifies before a House Oversight and Reform Select Subcommittee hearing on the Coronavirus Pandemic, on Capitol Hill in Washington, D.C., June 3, 2024.

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Five years since large-scale public reaction to the Covid-19 pandemic began, historical revisionism is afoot. If you believe some people, it’s not the public health establishment and its left-wing political allies who are guilty of it. Rather, it’s conservatives.

In The Atlantic, Jonathan Chait forgives his ideological compatriots their Covid-era sins. They simply “got some things about the pandemic correct and other things wrong” and “have disavowed or at least moved away from their wrong beliefs,” while conservatives are guilty of a “pathological incuriosity” about our errors.

Jack Butler

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Jack Butler

Jack Butler is a former submissions editor at National Review.

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