How did we get here? This crisis began more than forty years ago, when our peer countries recovered from World War II and began surpassing us in building social safety nets, providing universal health care, and enacting policies that protected their most vulnerable citizens. We went in the opposite direction. Our mortality numbers began to […]
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Bhattacharya has a history of undermining the CDC’s pandemic guidance. In 2020, the then NIH head, Dr. Francis Collins, labeled the former Stanford University physician and economist “fringe,” after Bhattacharya helped author the “Great Barrington Declaration,” which called for the end of the coronavirus lockdowns. In 2024, Bhattacharya criticized the CDC’s recommendation for widespread masking […]
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