“John P.A. Ioannidis is professor of medicine and professor of epidemiology and population health, as well as professor by courtesy of biomedical data science at Stanford University School of Medicine, professor by courtesy of statistics at Stanford University School of Humanities and Sciences, and co-director of the Meta-Research Innovation Center at Stanford (METRICS) at Stanford University.”

And he goes over just how unrelaible the data officials have been using to craft policy is.

A fiasco in the making? As the coronavirus pandemic takes hold, we are making decisions without reliable data