Fauci was ‘blind to the harms of the lockdowns' that didn't work anyway, says Stanford doctor

Fauci was ‘blind to the harms of the lockdowns' that didn't work anyway, says Stanford doctor

As Dr. Jay Bhattacharya contends that lockdowns have brought more harm than good, a new CDC report shows mask mandates, in-person dining have only modest effects on COVID case and death numbers.

In Bhattacharya's view, Biden administration chief medical advisor Anthony Fauci and other top public health officials have failed to view the risks to a subset of the U.S. population in the indispensable context of risks to the larger population produced by drastic mitigation policies like socially and economically stultifying lockdowns that blanketed much of the country over the past year.


Mask mandates were associated with decreases in daily COVID case growth rates and daily death growth rates of just 1.8% and 1.9%, respectively, 81-100 days after mandate implementation. Reopening restaurants for in-person dining, meanwhile, was associated with increases in daily case and death growth rates of, respectively, 1.1% and 3% after 81-100 days. 

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Association of State-Issued Mask Mandates and Allowing On-Premises Restaurant Dining with County-Level COVID-19 Case and Death Growth Rates — United States, March 1–December 31, 2020
Weekly / March 12, 2021 / 70(10);350–354

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