This report is from Matthew Impalli at Newsweek:
Dr. Jay Bhattacharya, a professor
at Stanford
University Medical School, recently said that COVID-19 lockdowns are
the "biggest public health mistake we've ever made...The harm to people is
catastrophic."
Several U.S. states have started to
ease their COVID-19 restrictions over the past few weeks.
Bhattacharya, who made the comments
during an interview with the Daily Clout, co-authored the Great Barrington
Declaration, a petition that calls for the end of COVID-19 lockdowns, claiming
that they are "producing devastating effects on short and long-term public
health."
As of Monday, the Great Barrington
Declaration has received signatures from over 13,000 medical and public health
scientists, more than 41,000 medical practitioners and at least 754,399
"concerned citizens."
During the interview last month,
Bhattacharya said that the declaration comes from "two basic facts."
"One is that people who are
older have a much higher risk from dying from COVID than people who are
younger...and that's a really important fact because we know who his most
vulnerable, it's people that are older. So the first plank of the Great
Barrington Declaration: let's protect the vulnerable," Bhattacharya said.
"The other idea is that the lockdowns themselves impose great harm on
people. Lockdowns are not a natural normal way to live."
He continued, "it's also not
very equal. People who are poor face much more hardship from the lockdowns than
people who are rich."
More of the report is here.
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