When President Joe Biden got Covid twice in July of 2022, his second and third known Covid infections, he became the most public living symbol of the lapses, confusion, and government misinformation that mark America’s long Covid nightmare. Biden—along with top advisor Dr. Anthony Fauci; the head of Pfizer, Dr. Albert Bourla; and CDC Director Dr. Rochelle Walensky—all had insisted the vaccines would prevent Covid. By the end of October of 2022, they counted at least nineteen shots among them, and nine bouts with Covid. Dr. Walensky, five vaccinations into her personal Covid prevention program, had just battled two cases of Covid in one nine-day period, with the CDC refusing to answer my questions about exactly when she’d had her shots, or whether she’d had Covid before. Why the secrets? On March 29, 2021, in an appearance on MSNBC, Dr. Walensky famously and falsely proclaimed, “Vaccinated people do not carry the virus. Don’t get sick.” I was dumbfounded. Much of the world already knew from personal experience that the CDC director was dead wrong on this point. Vaccinated people were getting ill with Covid in large numbers, and would soon outpace the number of unvaccinated people sick from Covid. How could it be that nearly everyone knew better than the head of the world’s most prestigious infectious disease authority? --also from my book, Follow the Science.