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“An Abundance of Caution is a book the world badly needed. This is indispensable reading.”
Nate Silver
“This book is important. It tells a disturbing story. The scientific community needs to engage seriously with Zweig's analysis.”
Paul Romer
“An Abundance of Caution is a uniquely rigorous, incisive and must-read book.”
Jeffrey S. Flier, M.D.
“A powerful analysis of the largest public health intervention in modern history.”
Marty Makary M.D.
“David Zweig was one of the only journalists brave enough to tell the truth about the ill-fated school closure policies during the pandemic.”
Matt Taibbi
David Zweig is a journalist, author, and (at one time) musician, based in New York. His work has appeared in the Atlantic, the New York Times, the Free Press, Wired, New York, the Boston Globe, the New Yorker, the Wall Street Journal, and, most frequently, his newsletter, Silent Lunch.
His latest book is An Abundance of Caution (MIT Press, 2025), about the catastrophic school closures, and other policy failures, in America during the pandemic.
Zweig wrote extensively about a range of Covid-related topics, penning numerous widely-read investigations into the science––or lack thereof––behind Covid mitigations, including mask mandates, pediatric vaccine recommendations, and school closures. He was present at the formation and signing of the Great Barrington Declaration, and interviewed its three authors, and he was one of the reporters on the Twitter Files, where he exposed social media censorship of true information by medical experts. He has appeared before Congress as an expert witness on pandemic school policies, and his reporting was cited in an amicus brief to the Supreme Court.
Invisibles (Penguin, June 2014), his first nonfiction book, was an expansion of his acclaimed Atlantic article “What Do Fact-Checkers and Anesthesiologists Have in Common?” Invisibles generated press around the world, with coverage in the U.S., Canada, Italy, France, Australia, South Korea, Ireland, the UK, Peru, Israel, Brazil, and Ukraine, among other countries. Translation rights have been sold in territories in Asia, Europe, and South America.
His novel, Swimming Inside The Sun, a modernist tale about identity and self-consciousness, was released in fall 2009. It received a rave review from Kirkus calling it a “terrific debut from a talented writer.”
Years ago, as a singer, guitar player, and producer Zweig released two albums, All Now With Wings and Keep Going. Both albums charted on college radio playlists and garnered accolades for Zweig, with the press calling him a “symphonic pop prodigy.”