Thread by @DrJBhattacharya

In 1896, the plague swept through India.

In 1898, the Indian Plague Commission convened to conduct an honest assessment of public health management of the plague. It conducted hundreds of interviews of British and Indian doctors and officials.
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harvardlibrarybulletin.org/minutes-indian…

"The testimonies of Indian doctors shed... light on the reactions of the Indian public..., which, in official British colonial circles, was frequently misrepresented ... as uniformly oppositional to presumably enlightened and scientific government-introduced measures."
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"The report... led the British colonial government to formally accept that anti-plague policies based on force and coercion were counterproductive"
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Is American public health capable of as honest an evaluation of its pandemic failures as British colonial public health was 125 years ago? Is the UK government still capable of this kind of honesty?
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Here's the blueprint for an honest covid commission. Such a commission would, at the very least, answer the questions that my Norfolk Group colleagues and I put together in this document.
norfolkgroup.org