Jay Bhattacharya | |
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.jpg) Bhattacharya in 2020 | |
| Born | Jayanta Bhattacharya 1968 (age 55–56) Kolkata, India |
| Nationality | American |
| Alma mater | Stanford University (BA, MA, MD, PhD)[1] |
| Known for | COVID-19 views; Great Barrington Declaration |
| Scientific career | |
| Fields | Medicine; health economics |
| Institutions | Stanford University |
Jayanta "Jay" Bhattacharya (born 1968) is an Indian American[2] professor of medicine, economics, and health research policy at Stanford University. He is the director of Stanford's Center for Demography and Economics of Health and Aging. His research focuses on the economics of health care.[3][4][5]
In 2021, Bhattacharya was opposed to lockdowns and mask mandates as a response to the COVID-19 pandemic.[6][7] With Martin Kulldorff and Sunetra Gupta, he was a co-author in 2020 of the Great Barrington Declaration, which advocated lifting COVID-19 restrictions on lower-risk groups to develop herd immunity through widespread infection, while promoting the fringe notion that vulnerable people could be simultaneously protected from the virus.[8][9][10] The declaration was criticized as being unethical and infeasible by Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, the director-general of the World Health Organization.[11]
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- ^ Jay Bhattacharya [@DrJBhattacharya] (20 December 2022). "I remember how proud I was when I became a naturalized American citizen" (Tweet). Retrieved 22 December 2022 – via Twitter.
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- For "unethical", see Professor Sir Robert Lechler. "Navigating COVID-19 through the volume of competing voices | The Academy of Medical Sciences". acmedsci.ac.uk. Archived from the original on 12 October 2020. Retrieved 10 October 2020.;
- for the "impossible" nature of focused protection, see Gorski, David (12 October 2020). "The Great Barrington Declaration: COVID-19 deniers follow the path laid down by creationists, HIV/AIDS denialists, and climate science deniers". Science-Based Medicine.;
- for "pseudoscience", see Reid Wilson (15 October 2020). "Town of Great Barrington, Mass., comes out against Great Barrington Declaration". The Hill..
- ^ D'Ambrosio, Amanda (19 October 2020). "Who Are the Scientists Behind the Great Barrington Declaration?". www.medpagetoday.com. Retrieved 22 January 2021.
- ^ Toy, Sarah; Hernandez, Daniela (18 October 2020). "Scientists Push Back on Herd-Immunity Approach to Covid-19". Wall Street Journal. ISSN 0099-9660. Retrieved 27 August 2021.
A group of scientists is pushing back on renewed calls for a herd-immunity approach to Covid-19, calling the method of managing viral outbreaks dangerous and unsupported by scientific evidence. ... If immunity wanes after several months, as it does with the flu, patients could be susceptible to the virus after being infected, they said. That, they said, would result in recurrent and potentially large waves of infection, a common occurrence before vaccines were invented.
- ^ Farzan, Antonia Noori; Berger, Miriam. "Trying to reach herd immunity is 'unethical' and unprecedented, WHO head says". Washington Post. ISSN 0190-8286. Retrieved 20 February 2022.