Stanford Holds Conference to ‘Repair Rifts,’ Reflect on Pandemic Policy and COVID Origins

Public health practitioners and policymakers from all sides of the COVID-19 policy debate participated in four expert panels.

Illustration by The Epoch Times, Courtesy of Rod Searcey/Department of Health Policy, Stanford University

In early October, Stanford University held a conference to discuss and reflect on pandemic policies during COVID-19.

The goal was to “bring together people with different perspectives” and “try to repair some of the rifts that opened during COVID,” said Jonathan Levin, the newly inaugurated Stanford president, in his opening speech at the conference.