Why did the Washington Post interview "the pandemic's wrongest man" for an article about COVID-19?

Alex Berenson has been consistently wrong about COVID, so why’s he being treated like an expert?

Last month, Twitter handed down a permanent suspension to Alex Berenson (a.k.a. “The Pandemic’s Wrongest Man”) for repeatedly violating its COVID-19 misinformation rules. That didn’t stop The Washington Post from quoting him as an expert in a recent piece about the “COVID endgame” by senior editor Marc Fisher.