Panic Attack: Playing Politics with Science in the Fight Against COVID-19

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"Follow the science" is what they said. "Follow our politics" is what they meant.

In Panic Attack, nationally bestselling author and physician Nicole Saphier uncovers the hypocrisy and hysteria which has characterized so much of the American pandemic response. While journalists trumpeted the importance of following science to "flatten the curve," they praised Governors Andrew Cuomo and Phil Murphy, who sanctioned ill-equipped nursing homes to take COVID-positive patients, leading to an enormous death spike for New York and New Jersey. Plus, the old guard medical establishment captured by Dr. Fauci proved to be far too rigid during a health care emergency.

While some state legislators are still concealing accurate records of nursing home deaths, many others have made anti-science decisions regarding re-opening plans; all of which fuel distrust and civil unrest. Democrat mayors like Bill de Blasio openly admitted that their decisions to keep schools closed were fueled by a "social contract" with teachers (that is: teachers' unions), despite hard science saying this would be harmful.

When anti-science measures are continuously implemented, the long-term consequences of such actions will likely stay with us for years to come. The pandemic has resulted in a failure of government, much of which is unavoidable in a unique disaster scenario. However, the rampant politicization of science, from the origin of the virus to the simple concept of wearing facemasks, has hopelessly muddied the water, divided the country, and knee-jerk anti-Trumpism made it all worse.

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3.8
6 reviews
Clark Magee
July 15, 2021
After watching a televised interview of Dr. Nicole Saphire and then reading just a couple of first "free sample" pages of this book, I eagerly ordered it and read it in the following two days. While I was initially impressed with the first chapter or two with regard to the subject matter and easy readability of her writing style, I gradually grew more disappointed in her failure to point obvious blame to people and their actions as well as the Wuhan Institute of Virology and the Chinese Communist Party for their role (both the leak and the coverup) that have now been exposed. Even as leaked emails have exposed Dr. Fauci's lies to the American public about not funding gain-of-function research and that this virus was from a bat 1000 miles away from the Wuhan lab that exclusively deals with these types of viruses, coupled with the repeated testimony of the main virologist at the Wuhan lab, Dr Li-Meng Yan, who defected to the US after implicating the CCP and it's PLA of developing the bioweapon, Dr. NIcole Saphire still didn't have the cojones to call out Dr. Fauci for the despicable fraud that he is. Moreover, Dr. Saphire failed to properly castigate Big Tech and the role it played in covering up real truths about COVID-19 by its perpetual censorship of views contrary to the CDC and the WHO, who by the way, BOTH contributed to the many falsehoods about the disease and tried to cover China's culpability. All in all, it was a decent book but I was expecting more. Dr. Saphire should have been more forthcoming about the fraud and deception of many of the players in this pandemic. I would not recommend this book to my friends.
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IG Music
June 9, 2021
You got that right, politics killed more then covid. The recovery/survivability rate of covid-19 in America is an astounding 98.3%, while worldwide it is 97.9%. America, performed well during this virus no matter what anyone wants to tell you. Brazil a county with half our case numbers has only 100,000 deaths less, which would mean if they had the same amount of case numbers their death total would of hit 900k. Mexico, 2.2m cases and 220k deaths. Again make the case numbers equal to America, and you'd have over 1.5 million. As well as a year and a few months in we have 1/3rd of the WORLDS vaccines administered IN AMERICA. That right there should tell you America's actual handling of the virus was far better then all the experts say. Great book in exposing the true danger of this virus, the politics. Keep up the good work.
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About the author

A nationally known medical contributor and regular guest anchor for the Fox News Channel, Nicole Saphier is a full-time practicing, board-certified radiologist at Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center in New York City.

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