Focused protection to minimize COVID mortality and collateral damage. Authored by Drs. @SunetraGupta, @DrJBhattacharya and @MartinKulldorff. Please co-sign.
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Focused protection: To minimize mortality, older and other high-risk individuals are better protected, while the young live near normal lives to minimize collateral damage from lockdowns. Sign the #GreatBarringtonDeclaration
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"The lockdowns did not just cause an economic meltdown from which we will take years to recover. They also failed on their own terms. They killed more people than they saved."
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Today is a good day to sign the Great Barrington Declaration
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Head of Immunisation for @PHE_uk -Dr Ramsey announced to the Science & Technology Committee that England may follow a focused protection strategy, where protection is given to the vulnerable and the disease is allowed to circulate among the young where its not causing much harm.
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"If we want scientists to speak freely in the future, we should avoid having the same people in charge of public health policy and medical research funding."
- @DrJBhattacharya & @MartinKulldorff
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“The International evidence and American evidence is clear. The lockdowns have not stopped the spread of the disease in any measurable way” Roundtable discussion today with @GovRonDeSantis . #lockdownharms #focusedprotection
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It has been a week since our @Facebook page was deleted.
This happened after we posted a comment in full support of a voluntary Covid19 vaccine plan.
There has been no option to review this decision.
There is no route to appeal available for @gbdeclaration.
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“Lockdowns are the single worst public health mistake in the last 100 years. We will be counting the catastrophic health and psychological harms, imposed on nearly every poor person on the face of the earth, for a generation.” Professor Jay Bhattacharya tinyurl.com/33u87kvn
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"We have to go back to the basic principles of public health that was thrown out the window a year ago. It’s not one disease public health is about all the diseases, so all the collateral damage." Professor @MartinKulldorff, April 2021.
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Of all the inefficient and damaging lockdown measures, school closures were the worst. Should never have happened.
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“The country should open up now that the older, vulnerable population has been vaccinated. The rest of the population is at much greater health risk from the lockdown than they are from the virus.” An Interview With Professor Jay Bhattacharya. lockdownsceptics.org/risk-of…
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“The lockdowns have been an enormous and ineffective overreaction, not actually protecting the population from COVID. While at the same time, the collateral damage is absolutely devastating,” Professor Jay Bhattacharya @collateralglbl. #totalharms #lockdown #CGResearch
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1. As scientists, we have been stunned and disheartened to witness many strange scientific claims made during this pandemic, often by scientists.
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We are pleased to report that the GBD
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“For most vaccinated and other low-risk people, Covid-19 is now a mild endemic infection, likely to recur in seasonal waves which renew immunity without significantly stressing the NHS.” express.co.uk/life-style/hea…
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"Children should not wear face masks.They don’t need it for their own protection and they don’t need it for protecting other people either".
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“At the start of the pandemic I said that lockdown could end up killing more people than Covid – I wish I had been wrong”
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“Considering that the vaccines do not seem to confer lifelong immunity nor prevent transmission of the virus to others, it’s hard to see how vaccinating healthy kids will help much to protect the vulnerable from Covid.”
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1. A year ago, there was no evidence that lockdowns would protect older high-risk people from Covid-19. Now there is evidence. They did not. telegraph.co.uk/news/2021/04…
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The anti-lockdown studies are evidence-based, robust, and thorough, grappling with the data we have (with all its flaws) and looking at the results in light of controls on the population. Thank you to @FatEmperor for collating most of these studies aier.org/article/lockdowns-d…
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Today two years ago, the Great Barrington Declaration argued for better protection of high-risk older people while keeping schools and society open to avoid the collateral damage now seen. We wish to thank all the 930,000+ co-signers.
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The aim of focused protection is to minimize overall mortality from both COVID-19 and other diseases by balancing the need to protect high-risk individuals from COVID-19 while reducing the harm that lockdowns have had on other aspects of medical care and public health.
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1. Negative Media coverage of C19 has fuelled hysteria and misinformation.
Help combat the negative news trend - share this positive information.
Good News about Covid19
**The case fatality rate from the virus has dropped sharply since March.**tinyurl.com/y8q3xzyx
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David Blunkett and Charles Walker join forces to question lockdowns @UnHerd unherd.com/thepost/david-blu…
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“The strategy I'm advocating is called focused protection, which means trying to protect those at risk of disease while the virus spreads naturally.”
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"Lockdowns cannot eradicate the disease or protect the public. Indeed, @MattHancock nearly said as much this week. They lead to only economic meltdown, social despair and direct harms to health from other causes."
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1. @facebook's deletion of the GBD site is both puzzling and troubling. Our last post was a statement in favor of prioritizing the elderly for vaccination against COVID-19 infection as a tool for focused protection of this vulnerable group,
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Liberty is not an absolute value but it is a critically important one. Of all freedoms, the freedom to interact with other human beings is perhaps the most valuable. - Lord Jonathan Sumption telegraph.co.uk/news/2021/02…
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1. We are all being asked to give things up to deal with this problem, but the sacrifices are not evenly distributed
Sunetra Gupta.
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1. Is there a middle ground between lockdowns – with school, business and office
closures, curfews, and isolation – and a laissez-faire "let it rip" approach? gbdeclaration.org/
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COVID Lockdowns Have No Clear Benefit vs Other Voluntary Measures, International Study Shows newsweek.com/covid-lockdowns…
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Vaccines have already brought protection to those who needed it. Now we must build natural immunity to this endemic disease.
@SunetraGupta in @Telegraph telegraph.co.uk/news/2021/09…
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Professor Sunetra Gupta 16th March 2021. Lockdowns have not protected the vulnerable. Watch the interview in full piped.video/0-7C2g5-Wcs via @YouTube
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Today our thoughts and warm wishes are sent especially to our elders who are spending Christmas alone this year, also to the many partners, sons, daughters, family and friends with relatives whom they are unable to be with during this festive period. #isolationChristmas
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1, One year ago today the Italian government made a decision to reject the pandemic preparedness plans that had been long established and began a quarantine of an entire population Lombardy. The @WHO had advised against this in October 2019 who.int/influenza/publicatio…
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It is vital to understand why our lockdown response is not working. Basic epidemiological theory indicates that lockdowns do not reduce the total number of cases in the long run and have never in history led to the eradication of a disease. FAQ's at gbdeclaration.org
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Clear and compelling arguments for why using vaccines to deliver focused protection and allowing natural immunity to do the rest provides a robust and sustainable solution. bbc.co.uk/news/health-582700…
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As well as misrepresenting our ideas, our critics also misrepresent us as people. Some journalists tried to paint us as right-wing libertarians with links to the Koch brothers. These were blatant lies and ad hominem smears reminiscent of the McCarthy era. spiked-online.com/2021/08/02…
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‘It is the strategy of enforced lockdowns that should be regarded as unconventional and subject to scrutiny, given how ineffective lockdowns have been.’ prospectmagazine.co.uk/the-d…
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‘Ignoring their own carefully prepared plans for a pandemic, they claimed unprecedented powers to impose untested strategies, with terrible collateral damage. As evidence of their mistakes mounted, they stifled debate by vilifying dissenters….’
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As we have often said, this approach should have been taken in March. @uksciencechief quite rightly said so himself.
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Would/Could an organisation’s @Facebook page be taken down without an appeal process? (Asking for a friend)
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1, Government messaging has become progressively hyperbolic and confusing. Balance and perspective is in short supply. As a result, the information we receive often feels alarming and frightening.
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‘Learning to live with Covid means continuing research to find better treatments and better vaccines. It means continuing to prioritise the vulnerable and extending this protection around the world.’ Jay Bhattacharya
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"Nowhere has the injustice of lockdowns been more apparent than in what they have required of children."
Read @SunetraGupta's comments piece here in the @Telegraph.
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2, Vaccinating children is completely illogical, as it benefits neither the individual nor the community.
@sunetragupta
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Why are so many people afraid of COVID-19?
Unfortunately, the public health messaging about COVID-19 around the world has created many misperceptions that have spread fear.
FAQs can be found here.
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‘Much of the impetus for vaccine passports has arisen from the false idea that universal COVID vaccination – including in young children in whom the vaccine has not been adequately tested – is necessary to end the pandemic.’ June 2021 smerconish.com/exclusive-con…
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"..the proposal to vaccinate children against Covid is a panicked, politicised measure. It seems to be more about recruiting children’s bodies in the symbolic fight against Covid than about limiting the actual effects of a disease."
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“Children aged 12 to 15 should only be vaccinated if it is in the interests of their health, rather than a tactical move to keep schools open”.
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"If you look at the global level, the United Nations and many others point to children being out of school being one of the main disasters that this pandemic has created."
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'What we risk, as a scientific community, is the confidence people have in vaccines and mathematical modelling, if we push them beyond their limits'.
@SunetraGupta on @SkyNews.
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Encouraging to see that Focused Protection is gaining traction in the UK - hopefully this will lead to sensible decisions on lifting the lockdown tier system. #COVID19 #focusedprotection #GBD
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Collateral damages from the response to Sars-Cov-2 . @UNICEF #schoolclosures #OpenTheSchools #usforthemuk “Without daily interactions with their peers and a reduction in mobility, they are losing physical fitness and showing signs of mental distress.” unicef.org/press-releases/ch…
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"Stanford professor @DrJBhattacharya was “blacklisted” for raising questions about how school lockdowns might affect the nation’s children." - @LelandVittert & @T_Wornell in @NewsNation
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"We panicked everybody, and have had these unfocused lockdowns which have caused absolutely devastating harms". Prof Jay Bhattacharya. #abetterway #gbdeclaration #focusedprotection
“If you have rats and you put them in cages away from each other they won’t infect each other. That was essential the sophistication of this.” —- Stanford Professor Jay Bhattacharya on lockdowns.
Full panel with @FlorioGina and @maxlugavere: piped.video/watch?v=EWq7_rBg…
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Today is a good day to co-sign the Great Barrington Declaration, arguing for focused protection of older high-risk people instead of school closures and other lockdown measures.
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“Having concerns about the cost of lockdown does not make you a ‘Covid-denier’, I would never dream of labelling someone a ‘cancer-denier’. The personal attacks and vicious insults have been relentless, but it’s important to rise above it.” Prof. Sikora telegraph.co.uk/news/2021/04…
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You may have noticed that our website has been down. Rest assured that all is well here at GBD.
Your response has been overwhelming. Literally. With hundreds of thousands of signatures, we had to pause for some site maintenance. Thank you. gbdeclaration.org/
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‘Governments chose to pursue these measures rather than the focused protection of older, high-risk people—and still failed to eliminate Covid. Meanwhile they inflicted great economic, social and health damage. ‘ Professor Sunetra Gupta. March 2021. @prospect_uk
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'Given a year of panic over school closures and reopenings,a year of masking toddlers and closing playgrounds and huddling in pandemic pods,that, according to the CDC, among children the mortality risk from COVID-19 is actually lower than from the flu.'
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Current lockdown policies are producing devastating effects on short and long-term public health.
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“There is an urgent imperative to re-establish the normal rules and expectations of an educational environment – to re-open schools as places focused on bringing the younger generation into society, rather than keeping them separate from it.” thecritic.co.uk/back-to-scho…
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Censorship continues.
Today I was erased by @Microsoft/@BillGates owned @LinkedIn. Rewriting history, they also removed my April 2020 article where I argued for focused protection of high-risk older people instead of lockdowns, a strategy that would have saved countless lives.
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"We should be using those doses ( being used to vaccinate children) to protect the elderly in Asia, in Africa, in South America where there are a lot of elderly people still vulnerable." Professor Jay Bhattacharya.
Dr. Jay Bhattacharya comments on the push for parents to get their children vaccinated against COVID-19
#NextRevFNC
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“Cancer, strokes, cardiac issues and many, many more health problems are still out there, so I don’t think it is too much to ask to have just one out of hundreds of conferences focused on just these issues.”
"Why can't just one of these endless press conferences be dedicated to non-Covid related illnesses?"
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Children have a right to a high-quality education. It is morally wrong to ask children to bear a disproportionate burden of the costs of the epidemic. Yet the lockdown policy, and especially school closures, guarantees that children are especially harmed. telegraph.co.uk/women/life/s…
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What are the physical health impacts of lockdowns?
There are many physical health harms. This includes lower childhood vaccination rates, less cancer screening, skipped cancer treatments, fewer preventive cardiovascular disease visits, just to name a few.
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3. Propagated by the media, the idea that infection does not confer effective immunity has made its way into decisions by governments, public health agencies, and private institutions, harming pandemic health policy. smerconish.com/exclusive-con…
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The collateral damage from lockdowns has been enormous.
@MartinKulldorff @collateralglbl
“Only looking at one disease goes against the basic principles of public health.”
“A woman might now die from a cervical cancer 3-4 years from now instead of living another 15-20 years.”
YouTube: piped.video/TmbQj9Z6zRk
@gbdeclaration | @MartinKulldorff @sketchnoteson
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“Our core aim is to find the common ground between the Government and groups that are concerned about COVID-19 restrictions.” @hartgroup_org
Our website is now live. Find out more about the doctors, scientists, economists and psychologists who have come together to form #HART: hartgroup.org/
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It is important to distinguish between the risk of infection and the risk of death. Anyone can get infected, but there is more than a thousand fold difference in the risk of death between the oldest and youngest. #focusedprotection tinyurl.com/y48fgmsr
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The strength of consensus, however, has had strange effects. Opposition parties have pushed ministers to double down on health protection — and focused less on holding government to account over the efficacy of lockdowns or the backlog of cancer cases.
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The first lockdown led to a significant increase in symptoms of depression among children, highlighting the unintended consequences of school closures, according to a new study from the University of Cambridge. #totalharms #abetterway #focusedprotection
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The Great Barrington Declaration is an open letter - from our founders and co-signatories to you personally -to the world. It is a presentation of another way, a kinder and less damaging way. Please read it , talk about it with your friends and family, and, if you agree,sign it.
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2. It is now well-established that natural immunity develops upon infection with SARS-CoV-2 in a manner analogous to other coronaviruses. smerconish.com/exclusive-con…
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Open letter from @hartgroup_org.
"We wish to notify you of our grave concerns regarding all proposals to administer COVID-19 vaccines to children."
A letter from over 40 medics & scientists, organised by HART member Dr Ros Jones, has been sent to the Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency (MHRA) warning of the dangers of vaccines which are “rushed to market”.
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The German city of Tübingen has implemented a Focused Protection plan. A combination of creative solutions, decisions made at a local level and community support has enabled the protection of the vulnerable in this city. france24.com/en/tv-shows/foc…
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"We now know that @DrJBhattacharya, @MartinKulldorff, and @SunetraGupta had the better argument." - @theWesleyJSmith
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“The first step to restoring the public’s trust in scientific experts is an honest and comprehensive evaluation of the nation’s pandemic response.” Professors @MartinKulldorff & Bhattacharya. wsj.com/articles/a-covid-com…
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You never use models to make predictions, you use them to create testable hypotheses.
They did that, we did that. Now let’s wait and see what the data say.
Watch in full piped.video/37VgawZN6ZE
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While older people underestimate their risk of COVID-19 mortality, young people greatly overestimate their mortality risk. Better public health messaging that does not spread unfounded fears based on anecdotes would help correct this situation.
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"Unfortunately, herd immunity became a propaganda tool to push for endless lockdowns." - @MartinKulldorff and Jay Bhattacharya in @Telegraph
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October 2020: "In only 10 days, the Great Barrington Declaration had garnered over 500,000 signatures globally ... Some 25,000 of these signatures came from medical practitioners, and 9,000 from health scientists."
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The Great Barrington Declaration is an open letter - from our founders and co-signatories to you personally -to the world. It is a presentation of another way, a kinder and less damaging way. Please read it , talk about it with your friends and family, and, if you agree,sign it.
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Sign it! canadianphysicians.org/ “We are a broad and diverse group of Canadian physicians from across Canada who are sending out this urgent declaration to the Colleges of Physicians and Surgeons of our various Provinces and Territories and to the Public at large, whom we serve.”
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This is ironic because the community standards of a free country militate against exactly the kind of censorship that @facebook is enacting. It is a modern form of book burning.
Professor Jay Bhattacharya.
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1. The harms of lockdown are unequally distributed. Economists have found that only 37% of jobs in the US can be performed wholly on-line, and high-paying jobs are overrepresented among that set.
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"What I hoped we would achieve is a measured debate with different sides being presented. What has happened & what we have had to endure, & what has caused enormous damage to science, is this partisan debate with people blaming each other, and a misrepresentation of our ideas"
“Neil Ferguson should debate me” - my interview with Oxford’s Sunetra Gupta on SpectatorTV piped.video/ekgF5kmoEdI
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1. Lockdown Harms -#cancer
This year many countries have experienced reduced access to a fully functional healthcare system. Whilst it is difficult to forecast the harms and deaths that will result from this, we are beginning to see more data on this as we progress into 2021.
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'it sheds on the debate over vaccinating children;
perhaps it is better to simply allow them to be infected on the grounds they're highly unlikely to come to serious harm but are more likely to gain lasting immunity from the disease that way.'
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2.Since March 2020 #cancer screening has been suspended, routine diagnostic work deferred, and only urgent symptomatic cases prioritised for diagnostic intervention. thelancet.com/journals/lanon…
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12. We must not turn away from the devastation the lockdown response is causing and we must ensure it is not allowed to happen again.
Please keep sharing your knowledge and let others know there was always a #betterway.
Evidence of collateral damage at collateralglobal.org/studies
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Focused Protection would allow those who are at minimal risk of death to live their lives normally to build up immunity to the virus through natural infection, while better protecting those who are at highest risk. #abetterway #focusedprotection #covid19
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“The Great Barrington Declaration was the best thing I’ve ever done. In a hundred years I’d sign it again. I’d sign it every time.”
@DrJBhattacharya
Read here : loom.ly/CzozQUs
Watch here : loom.ly/aFQl0pI
@thelucyjohnston @sketchnoteson @collateralglbl
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It is important to distinguish between the risk of infection and the risk of death. Anyone can get infected, but there is more than a thousand-fold difference in the risk of death between the oldest and youngest.
loom.ly/sLxqPgg
#abetterway #focusedprotection
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The questionable quality of COVID-19 testing data, alongside loose COVID-19 case definitions, means we cannot effectively work to build an efficient, effective system to address the disease at the individual or community level. thehill.com/opinion/healthca…
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