Meet Alex Berenson, former NYT reporter who is challenging the coronavirus narrative

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As daily life across America is upended by the coronavirus crisis — with mass business closures plunging the economy into freefall — one former New York Times reporter is sounding the alarm about what he believes are flawed models dictating the aggressive strategy.

Alex Berenson has been analyzing the data on the crisis on a daily basis for weeks and has come to the conclusion that the strategy of shutting down entire sectors of the economy is based on modeling that doesnโ€™t line up with the realities of the virus.

“The response we have taken has caused enormous societal devastation, I don’t think that’s too strong a word,” he told Fox News in an interview Thursday.

Berenson is a former reporter who worked for the Times from 1999 to 2010 primarily covering the pharmaceutical industry. He recently came to prominence again with a book, โ€œTell Your Children The Truth About Marijuana, Mental Illness, and Violence,โ€ which challenged prevailing narratives on marijuana.

The response we have taken has caused enormous societal devastation.
~ Alex Berenson

In the face of a broadening consensus on both the left and the libertarian right that sees marijuana as mostly healthy and even a positive in some circumstances, Berenson argued that the evidence instead shows a link between the drug and serious mental illness and an epidemic of violence.

Now heโ€™s turned to challenging the narratives on the response to the coronavirus. What Berenson is promoting isnโ€™t coronavirus denialism, or conspiracy theories about plots to curb liberties. Instead what Berenson is claiming is simple: the models guiding the response were wrong and that it is becoming clearer by the day.

“In February I was worried about the virus. By mid-March I was more scared about the economy. But now Iโ€™m starting to get genuinely nervous,” he tweeted this week. “This isnโ€™t complicated. The models donโ€™t work. The hospitals are empty. WHY ARE WE STILL TALKING ABOUT INDEFINITE LOCKDOWNS?”

Byย Adam Shaw

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