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That House panel report is a joke. They massively cherry pick evidence to praise everything Trump did and condemn everything Biden did.

For example, they praise Trump's travel restrictions for saving lives. To support this they cite a single study, which didn't even study COVID. It was a study that used computer models of the spread of other diseases to see if travel restrictions are useful. That's an interesting and useful type of study, but it isn't anywhere near conclusive.

Compare to masks, which they conclude are worthless. They acknowledge that the CDC provided them a list of over a dozen studies that were specifically of mask use in regard to COVID, but they completely dismiss all of them because they were observational studies, not randomized controlled trials.

Here's an article that gives more details on the deficiencies of that report, including the deficiencies in its claims about COVID origins [1].

[1] https://arstechnica.com/science/2024/12/congressional-republ...