The PAI Starter Pack
New to the Pandemic Accountability Index? Start here!
It’s been some years since starting the PAI. Looking back, the reason for starting the Pandemic Accountability Index was twofold:
1) To produce a digestible periodical for the public which compiles and shares the latest scientific research on the impacts of COVID-19, something which has been left almost entirely out of pandemic policy debates and endless opinion editorials. There has to be a sweet spot between highlighting single studies and dumping hundreds of thousands of studies that no single person can read & understand.
The “What COVID-19 Does to the Body” series, followed by the “Answered” series of guides on how COVID-19 impacts different parts of the body, have hopefully helped shine a light on the gaps in people’s knowledge.
2) The horror of watching the advertising playbook being used to sell a deadly and disabling virus is too much to bear. The general public needs a hard look at many of the “experts” who have dominated discussions around COVID-19, making countless basic errors that you don’t need a medical or scientific background to point out. The Profiles the Pandemic Accountability Index has assembled should help better inform the public on whom is trustworthy, if and when another public health crisis happens.
Here are a few of the best and most informative articles the Pandemic Accountability Index has produced:
RESEARCH
PROFILES
REVIEWS
Death in Hamburg: Society and Politics in the Cholera Years by Richard J. Evans
Bad Blood: Secrets and Lies in a Silicon Valley Startup by John Carreyrou
COMMENTARY
If this is your first time visiting the Pandemic Accountability Index, I hope this guide was helpful. If you’re a recent subscriber and haven’t dug through the archives, I hope you appreciate this look at some of the classics! If you’ve been a longtime subscriber, thank you so much for your support!
