Tue Dec 21, 2021 – 3:11 pm EST
WASHINGTON (LifeSiteNews) — Former National Institutes of Health (NIH) director Dr. Francis Collins privately urged his fellow federal health bureaucrats to release a “quick and devastating published take down” of respected epidemiologists who opposed the mass lockdown approach to combating COVID-19, newly-disclosed emails reveal.
Released in October 2020 and signed by dozens of health experts representing multiple countries, the Great Barrington Declaration contended that “lockdown policies are producing devastating effects on short and long-term public health” resulting in “lower childhood vaccination rates, worsening cardiovascular disease outcomes, fewer cancer screenings and deteriorating mental health.”
It instead advocated “Focused Protection,” meaning “allow[ing] 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.”
The Declaration’s lead authors were Dr. Martin Kulldorff of Harvard, Dr. Sunetra Gupta of Oxford, and Dr. Jay Bhattacharya of Stanford — described as “three fringe epidemiologists” by Collins in an October 8, 2020, email to White House COVID czar Dr. Anthony Fauci and Dr. Clifford Lane, National Institute of Allergy & Infectious Diseases Deputy Director
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