{"id":11591,"date":"2025-05-13T06:00:00","date_gmt":"2025-05-13T10:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cov19longhaulfoundation.org\/?p=11591"},"modified":"2025-04-03T12:21:15","modified_gmt":"2025-04-03T16:21:15","slug":"dr-leana-wen-admits-some-covid-conspiracy-theories-were-actually-true","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cov19longhaulfoundation.org\/?p=11591","title":{"rendered":"Dr. Leana Wen Admits Some COVID ‘Conspiracy Theories’ Were Actually True"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Via American Greatness,<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Dr. Leana Wen, a\u00a0former CNN medical analyst who famously stated that \u201cthe unvaccinated should not be allowed to leave their homes,\u201d\u00a0<\/strong>is now admitting that Covid dissenters should have been allowed to ask questions.<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Wen, in a recent video, addresses the fact that many people had questions, particularly about the Covid vaccine, but were afraid to ask those questions because they might be told that their concerns were simply conspiracy theories.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

In that video, Wen admits that concerns that were raised about the vaccine\u2019s impact on women\u2019s menstrual cycles are supported by studies that \u201chave shown that there may be some changes to the menstrual period in the short term.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Wen also conceded that questions about natural immunity from infection were summarily dismissed during the first two years of the pandemic because medical officials didn\u2019t want people to be exposed through what she termed \u201cchicken pox parties\u201d where people could be infected all at once.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

According to Wen, medical experts now admit that a person who has been infected with Covid does enjoy short term immunity benefits, saying, \u201cIt\u2019s also true that \u2026 you do get some degree of pretty good immunity after having infection.\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Wen says Covid dissenters should have been able to ask questions and that she would have answered them.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The turnaround is a sharp contrast to Wen\u2019s harsh earlier stances taken during her regular appearances on CNN as a medical analyst, her opinion pieces for the Washington Post and her time as a guest contributor for NPR, PBS, BBC, and MSNBC.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

A comment posted by Harry Fisher<\/a> on X, formerly Twitter, describes Wen\u2019s admissions as a larger pattern of \u201cslow-walking\u201d the truth after first censoring and punishing those with legitimate questions, delaying investigation until after policies are instituted and quietly admitting the truth only when accountability is unlikely.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

If nothing else, Dr. Wen\u2019s about-face is more evidence that public health decisions and Covid policies affecting millions of people were driven by politics rather than scientific inquiry.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The public is right to hesitate before trusting experts who put narrative control ahead of their institutional credibility.<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Via American Greatness, Dr. Leana Wen, a\u00a0former CNN medical analyst who famously stated that \u201cthe unvaccinated should not be allowed to leave their homes,\u201d\u00a0is now admitting that Covid dissenters should […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":11624,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[445,972,974,608],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11591","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-policies-politics","category-vaccine-enhanced-disease","category-vaccine-long-term-safety","category-vaccine-safety"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cov19longhaulfoundation.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11591","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cov19longhaulfoundation.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cov19longhaulfoundation.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cov19longhaulfoundation.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cov19longhaulfoundation.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=11591"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/cov19longhaulfoundation.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11591\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11595,"href":"https:\/\/cov19longhaulfoundation.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11591\/revisions\/11595"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cov19longhaulfoundation.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/11624"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cov19longhaulfoundation.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=11591"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cov19longhaulfoundation.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=11591"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cov19longhaulfoundation.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=11591"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}