'Epidemiologists Stray From the Covid Herd' Great Barrington Declaration co-authors Martin Kuldorff and Jay Bhattacharya on the costs of lockdown, the science of immunity, and the politicization of the coronavirus pandemic: 'lockdowns as a form of contagion'

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Epidemiologists Stray From the Covid Herd

Great Barrington Declaration co-authors Martin Kuldorff and Jay Bhattacharya on the costs of lockdown, the science of immunity, and the politicization of the coronavirus pandemic.
By Tunku Varadarajan
Oct. 23, 2020

Explaining the homogeneous diffusion of COVID-19 nonpharmaceutical interventions across heterogeneous countries
Abiel Sebhatua,b,1, Karl Wennberga,b,c, Stefan Arora-Jonssond,e, and Staffan I. Lindbergf  

a Institute for Analytical Sociology, Linköping University, SE-601 74 Norrköping, Sweden; b Stockholm School of Economics, SE-113 83 Stockholm, Sweden; c Ratio Institute, SE-113 59 Stockholm, Sweden; d Department of Business Studies, Uppsala University, SE-751 20 Uppsala, Sweden; e Institute of Management and Organization, Università della Svizzera Italiana, 6900 Lugano, Switzerland; and f V-Dem Institute, Department of Political Science, University of Gothenburg, SE-405 30 Gothenburg, Sweden

Edited by Arild Underdal, University of Oslo, Oslo, Norway, and approved July 16, 2020 (received for review May 27, 2020)