Five years since “two weeks to slow the spread!”

Five years since schools shuttered their doors.

Five years since lockdowns loomed.

All in the name of “safety.”

Now, most people agree that the government’s response to COVID-19 was a major overreach that caused profound damage to citizens of every age, race, religion, and background.

But saying anything like that at the time resulted in vicious cancel campaigns and professional destruction.

With people like Jay Bhattacharya as the head of the National Institutes of Health (NIH), and Independent Institute Senior Advisor Scott Atlas as podcast host of The Independent with Scott Atlas becoming major media voices, we’ve come a long way since 2020. But we must remain vigilant to ensure nothing like this ever happens again.

That’s why, since the start of the pandemic, Independent Institute has been committed to analyzing the effects of the government’s response—both the nature of the overreach and the ways in which the media, corporations, the scientific community, and unelected, unaccountable bureaucrats helped make such a shocking and unconstitutional breach of power possible.

PUBLISHED PAPER

Were COVID-19 Lockdowns Worth It? A Meta-Analysis

PODCAST

Sweden’s Anders Tegnell: Lessons from the Pandemic

Jay Bhattacharya Was Right, and Francis Collins Wrong

By David R. Henderson, and Charles L. Hooper

Locking Down American Liberty

By Phillip W. Magness

America Still Needs a Covid Reckoning

By Scott W. Atlas

A Great Trump Appointment: Jay Bhattacharya

By Richard K. Vedder

PODCAST

Jay Bhattacharya: How Science Was Politicized at Stanford During the Pandemic