Covid-19: Group of UK and US experts argues for "focused protection" instead of lockdowns - 2020-10-07
Covid-19: Group of UK and US experts argues for "focused protection" instead of lockdowns October 7, 2020,
The Great Barrington Declaration,1 published on Monday 5 October, was drawn up by three epidemiologists and public health experts from Harvard, Oxford, and Stanford universities, who describe their approach as "focused protection" of the people most at risk.
As of Wednesday 7 October almost 6300 medical practitioners and public health scientists from the US, the UK, and other nations had signed the declaration.
The authors—Martin Kulldorff, professor of medicine at Harvard, Sunetra Gupta, professor of theoretical epidemiology at Oxford, and Jay Bhattacharya, professor of medicine and economics at Stanford—said that because older people were 1000 times more likely to die of covid-19 than younger people, an "age stratified" approach could allow resources to be focused on older and high risk patients, while allowing younger and healthier people to attend school and keep businesses open.