Dr. Marty Makary is a highly accomplished surgeon at John Hopkins. I posted some video of his presentation to Congress here. He has now written "10 myths told by COVID experts — and now debunked" at the New York Post." He writes that throughout COVID the CDC:

weaponized research itself by putting out its own flawed studies in its own non-peer-reviewed medical journal, MMWR. In the final analysis, public health officials actively propagated misinformation that ruined lives and forever damaged public trust in the medical profession.

He then lists 10 ways that the CDC misled Americans. These are the headlines only--visit the NYP for the entire article:

• Natural immunity offers little protection compared to vaccinated immunity.
• Masks prevent COVID transmission
• School closures reduce COVID transmission
• Myocarditis from the vaccine is less common than from the infection
• Young people benefit from a vaccine booster
• Vaccine mandates increased vaccination rates
• COVID originating from the Wuhan lab is a conspiracy theory
• It was important to get the second vaccine dose three or four weeks after the first dose
• Data on the bivalent vaccine is ‘crystal clear’
• One in five people get long COVID.

The main sin of the public health officials, according to Makary:"Public health officials said “you must” when the correct answer should have been “we’re not sure.” [More . . . ]