All posts by Jonathan Howard

Dr. Jonathan Howard is a neurologist and psychiatrist who has been interested in vaccines since long before COVID-19. He is the author of "We Want Them Infected: How the failed quest for herd immunity led doctors to embrace the anti-vaccine movement and blinded Americans to the threat of COVID."

Normalizing Dead Children

Pediatric fatalities from both guns and COVID could be greatly reduced if more people simply cared.

/ April 22, 2022

They Have Names, Part 2

"We share their names because their name is part of their story."

/ April 10, 2022

Malingering:  The Lord Voldemort of Medicine

Understanding of malingering isn’t advanced with acquiescence and silence

/ April 8, 2022

Race and COVID

I suspect the mass infection of unvaccinated children wouldn't have been openly championed if more White children died.

/ April 3, 2022

Science Fiction at the Wall Street Journal

Senator Daniel Patrick Moynihan famously said "Everyone is entitled to his own opinion, but not his own facts". It's my opinion that no child should die for lack of a vaccine. The editors of The Wall Street Journal disagree

/ March 27, 2022

COVID and Our Warped Sense of Normal

Children are not supposed to die. This didn't used to be controversial.

/ March 25, 2022

The CDC Goofs and Doctors React

After a CDC goof, several doctors - including me - shared incorrect information. What happened next was revealing.

/ March 20, 2022

“This Would Translate to About 10,000 Deaths” Reflections From the Start of the Pandemic

“This would translate to about 10,000 deaths” Two years ago, Dr. John Ioannidis wrote an essay in STAT titled “A Fiasco in The Making? As The Coronavirus Pandemic Takes Hold, We Are Making Decisions Without Reliable Data.” It contained the following paragraph: If we assume that case fatality rate among individuals infected by SARS-CoV-2 is 0.3% in the general population — a...

/ March 17, 2022

The Consequences of a Medical Myth

There are real-world consequences to medical myths spread by contrarian doctors sheltered from the consequences of their words.

/ March 13, 2022

Through The Looking Glass With Dr. Jay Bhattacharya

Dr. Jay Bhattacharya and Humpty Dumpty agree, words have no meaning.

/ March 11, 2022