Marty Makary on Pandemic Missteps: warns against

Dr. Marty Makary calls prolonged school closures, cloth masks on toddlers, and the ignoring of natural immunity among the pandemic’s worst missteps, and he warns against repeating absolutist public-health guidance. He made the case in his All-In podcast interview (~February 2026).

Makary’s stated reasoning is that these policies were imposed as certainties rather than judgment calls — applied to children who bore little risk from the virus while suffering the developmental costs of the interventions — and that the refusal to acknowledge natural immunity reflected dogma rather than science. He presents the episode as evidence that rigid, one-size-fits-all guidance does more harm than good.

This is Makary’s position, attributed to him — not medical advice.

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