Young low-risk adults should work normally, rather than from home. Extracurricular activities, such as sports, should be resumed. Schools and universities should be open for in-person teaching. Simple hygiene measures, such as hand washing and staying home when sick should be practiced by everyone to reduce the herd immunity threshold. Those who are not vulnerable should immediately be allowed to resume life as normal. A comprehensive and detailed list of measures, including approaches to multi-generational households, can be implemented, and is well within the scope and capability of public health professionals. When possible, they should meet family members outside rather than inside. Retired people living at home should have groceries and other essentials delivered to their home. By way of example, nursing homes should use staff with acquired immunity and perform frequent testing of other staff and all visitors. We call this Focused Protection.Īdopting measures to protect the vulnerable should be the central aim of public health responses to COVID-19. The most compassionate approach that balances the risks and benefits of reaching herd immunity, is to 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. Our goal should therefore be to minimize mortality and social harm until we reach herd immunity.

the point at which the rate of new infections is stable – and that this can be assisted by (but is not dependent upon) a vaccine. We know that all populations will eventually reach herd immunity – i.e. Indeed, for children, COVID-19 is less dangerous than many other harms, including influenza.Īs immunity builds in the population, the risk of infection to all – including the vulnerable – falls. We know that vulnerability to death from COVID-19 is more than a thousand-fold higher in the old and infirm than the young.

Since the GBD completely refutes the global Technocrat narrative of fear-mongering, lockdowns, school closings, social distancing, mask wearing, etc., it has been completely ignored by the world’s media and medical policy makers.įortunately, our understanding of the virus is growing. They were joined by 43 highly-credentialed co-signers. 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. Sunetra Gupta, professor at Oxford University, an epidemiologist with expertise in immunology, vaccine development, and mathematical modeling of infectious diseases. Martin Kulldorff, professor of medicine at Harvard University, a biostatistician, and epidemiologist with expertise in detecting and monitoring infectious disease outbreaks and vaccine safety evaluations. Today, just 14 months later, the Declaration has attracted 870,000 signatures, including almost 60,000 from medical scientists and practitioners. On October 4, 2020, three highly-respected medical professionals wrote The Great Barrington Declaration to protest damaging COVID-19 policies, including physical and mental health impacts.

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