In his letter, “Social restrictions and science,” Andrew Larkin suggests there is a one-size-fits-all “science of epidemiology” that does not require social restrictions to slow the spread of COVID-19 because such restrictions weren’t needed to stop.
The science of epidemiology was clear in 2016 at the time of Dr. Donald Henderson’s death. He is credited with eliminating smallpox. Henderson was the 20th century’s most acclaimed disease eradicator, and the chief on epidemiology at Johns Hopkins. In.