Early pandemic medical helplessness opened a vacuum for wellness hustlers

Evidence

When Covid hit, competition among many prominent people who specialize in wellness and those they dismissed as specializing in sickness (i.e., doctors and scientists) reached new levels, and for a simple reason. … For months, conventional medicine had nothing for us. … This was the period when, if you thought you might have Covid, the reigning advice offered by doctors was far from reassuring: “Try not to give it to anyone else”; “Stay home unless you can barely breathe”; “If you can’t breathe, call an ambulance and try your luck with the local hospital, from which there is a solid chance you will never reemerge.” — Naomi Klein, Doppelganger, 603