The Great Barrington Declaration
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Left to right: Martin Kulldorff, Sunetra Gupta, and Jay Bhattacharya at the American Institute for Economic Research, Great Barrington, Massachusetts, USA, Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Kulldorff_gupta_bhattacharya.jpg (Attribution: Taleed Brown, Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International license: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/deed.en, Presented at: WindermereSun.com)
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Part of the contributing factors for not having a truly open discussion on the topic of COVID pandemic and the best practices in prevention against COVID pandemic was because many scientists and medical scientists had been silenced or their views and messages were prevented from being spread on various social media platforms and search engines. Case in point, Dr. & Professor Martin Kulldorff was prevented from having his view point being spread due to shadow banning. Please refer to the excerpt from wikipedia, on Martin Kulldorff, in italics, below:
Martin Kulldorff (born 1962) is a Swedish biostatistician. From 2003 to 2021, he was a professor of medicine at Harvard Medical School.[2] He is a member of the US Food and Drug Administration‘s Drug Safety and Risk Management Advisory Committee and a former member of the Vaccine Safety Subgroup of the Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices at the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.[1][3]
In 2020, Kulldorff was a co-author of the Great Barrington Declaration, which advocated lifting COVID-19 restrictions on lower-risk groups to develop herd immunity through infection, while promoting the false promise that vulnerable people could be protected from the virus.[4][5][6] The declaration was criticized as being unethical and infeasible and was widely rejected.[7]
During the pandemic, Kulldorff opposed disease control measures such as vaccination of children, lockdowns, contact tracing, and mask mandates.[5][8][9][10]
In the video published on Dec. 27, 2022, by London Real, as “Dr Martin Kulldorff – The Great Barrington Declaration“, below:
Dr. Martin Kulldorff, professor of medicine at Harvard University, a biostatistician, and epidemiologist with expertise in detecting and monitoring of infectious disease outbreaks and vaccine safety evaluations. Dr. Sunetra Gupta, professor at Oxford University, an epidemiologist with expertise in immunology, vaccine development, and mathematical modeling of infectious diseases. Dr. Jay Bhattacharya, professor at Stanford University Medical School, a physician, epidemiologist, health economist, and public health policy expert focusing on infectious diseases and vulnerable populations, in the video published on Oct 6, 2020, by Co-Immunity, as “Great Barrington Declaration – Herd Immunity“, below:
From the very beginning of the COVID-19 crisis, Dr. Jay Bhattacharya has been on the front lines of analyzing, studying, and even personally fighting the pandemic. In this wide-ranging interview, Dr. Bhattacharya takes us through how it started, how it spread throughout the world, the efficacy of lockdowns, the development and distribution of the vaccines, and the rise of the Delta variant. He delves into what we got right, what we got wrong, and what we got really wrong. Finally, Dr. Bhattacharya looks to the future and how we will learn to live with COVID rather than trying to extinguish it, and how we might be prepared to deal with another inevitable pandemic that we know will arrive at some point, in the video published on Oct 21, 2021 (recorded on Oct 13, 2021), by Hoover Institution, as “What Happened: Dr. Jay Bhattacharya on 19 Months of COVID“, below:
In the video published on Oct 8, 2020, by Dr. John Campbell, as “Arguments, Great Barrington Declaration“, below:
For more on The Barrington Declaration, please refer to the excerpt from wikipedia, in italics, below:
The Great Barrington Declaration was an open letter published in October 2020 in response to the COVID-19 pandemic and lockdowns.[1][2] It claimed harmful COVID-19 lockdowns could be avoided via the fringe notion of “focused protection”, by which those most at risk could purportedly be kept safe while society otherwise took no steps to prevent infection.[3][4] The envisaged result was herd immunity within three months, as SARS-CoV-2 swept through the population.[1][2][3] Authored by Sunetra Gupta of the University of Oxford, Jay Bhattacharya of Stanford University, and Martin Kulldorff of Harvard University, it was drafted at the American Institute for Economic Research (AIER) in Great Barrington, Massachusetts, signed there on 4 October 2020, and published on 5 October.[2][5] At the time, COVID-19 vaccines were considered to be months away from general availability.[3] The document presumed that the disease burden of mass infection could be tolerated, that any infection would confer long term sterilizing immunity, and it made no mention of physical distancing, masks, contact tracing,[6] or long COVID, which has left patients with debilitating symptoms months after the initial infection.[7][8]
The World Health Organization (WHO) and numerous academic and public-health bodies have stated that the strategy is dangerous and lacks a sound scientific basis.[9][10] They say that it would be challenging to shield all those who are medically vulnerable, leading to a large number of avoidable deaths among both older people and younger people with pre-existing health conditions.[11][12] As of October 2020, they warn that the long-term effects of COVID-19 are still not fully understood.[10][13] Moreover, the WHO said that the herd immunity component of the proposed strategy is undermined by the unknown duration of post-infection immunity.[10][13] They say that the more likely outcome would be recurrent epidemics, as was the case with numerous infectious diseases before the advent of vaccination.[12] The American Public Health Association and 13 other public-health groups in the United States warned in a joint open letter that the “Great Barrington Declaration is not grounded in science and is dangerous”.[9] The Great Barrington Declaration received support from some scientists, the Donald Trump administration, British Conservative politicians, and from The Wall Street Journal‘s editorial board.
The Great Barrington Declaration was sponsored by the American Institute for Economic Research, a libertarian free-market think tank associated with climate change denial.[14][15][16]
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