Hillsdale College Academy Scientist: Government’s Handling of COVID Pandemic a ‘Disaster’ That Ruined Public Health and Science

October 8, 2022 Susan Berry, PhD 

SOMERS, Connecticut – Epidemiologist Martin Kulldorff, Ph.D. told attendees at Hillsdale College’s Blake Center for Faith and Freedom Thursday evening that government health agencies that forced lockdowns and coerced mass vaccinations to manage the COVID-19 pandemic have thrown the basic principles of public health “out the window.”

Swedish native Kulldorff, who is on leave from Harvard University and is a founding fellow of Hillsdale’s Academy for Science and Freedom, is also a co-author of the Great Barrington Declaration, a document published in October 2020 that has since been translated into 44 languages and signed by nearly 1 million scientists, physicians, and citizens.

The Declaration, also co-authored by Oxford University’s Dr. Sunetra Gupta and Stanford’s Dr. Jay Bhattacharya, expresses the “grave concerns” of infectious disease epidemiologists and public health scientists regarding the “damaging physical and mental health impacts of the prevailing COVID-19 policies,” specifically the lockdowns, which, the authors warned two years ago, were already “producing devastating effects on short and long-term public health.”.............To Read More....