To be fair, professional medical advice was especially low-quality in the early days of the pandemic. What was important was public health messaging, picking some lowest-common-denominator messages and having everyone repeat them. It wasn't hard to be better informed than that.
>> To be fair, professional medical advice was especially low-quality in the early days of the pandemic.
They primarily suffer from dogma IMHO. For example, now they know people with breathing difficulty should be kept in prone position. I dont know if that applies outside of Covid19, but I thought it was really interesting to see them learn it. Like "oh, what we'd normally do is bad but this variation is good".
Medicine also suffers from a fear (justified) of litigation. If they dont follow accepted practices they may get sued if someone dies. The funny thing with Covid was watching that fear when there was no accepted treatment. Seeing them say "The FDA hasn't approved that for covid" when they hadn't approved anything at all yet.
> Medicine also suffers from a fear (justified) of litigation.
very US-centric. Medical litigation in many others parts of the world doesn't work in the same way, and isn't a driving force in the way medicine is practiced.
