US Failed in Pandemic Response, Experts Tell Congress
The United States made multiple mistakes in its response to the COVID-19 pandemic, including widespread lockdowns and the aggressive promotion of faulty vaccines, experts testified to a new congressional panel on Feb. 28.
“During the last three years, we have seen the worst public health mistakes in history,” Martin Kulldorff, a professor of medicine on leave from Harvard University, told the House Select Subcommittee on the Coronavirus Pandemic in Washington.
The mistakes included not crafting policies focused on protecting those highest at risk—the elderly and otherwise infirm—and the denial and downplaying of post-infection immunity, Kulldorff said.
He and Dr. Jay Bhattacharya, a professor of medicine at Stanford University, are two of three authors of the Great Barrington Declaration, which called in 2020 for focused protection of those at high risk while allowing others to live their lives normally….