12/18/2023 0 Comments Unherd natural immunityAnd the key thing is what is the optimal strategy to use? So in the case of Covid, in the beginning, we didn’t know exactly what was the infection-fatality rate, which is what’s the risk of dying if you get infected, because we didn’t know how many people had got infected. I think these models where you predict a certain number of people are going to die, are pretty useless. On the problems with epidemiological modelling… And if we don’t have open discourse about science, science is going to die. I think that’s a huge problem for science as we move forward, because science can only thrive with discussions. So there was support, yes, from individuals. I got private emails from many of the faculty members, many of whom I’d never heard of before. No, I didn’t get much defence from the university, no. On whether he was supported by Harvard after speaking out… But I think the key thing was to show the public that there was not scientific consensus for lockdowns. We were attacked, including by the NIH Director Collins and Anthony Fauci and Jeremy Farrar at the Wellcome Trust here and Christian Drosten in Germany who called us pseudo-scientists. All of us came from reasonably respectable universities: Oxford, Harvard and Stanford. All of the three of us have worked on infectious disease technology. The difference was that it came from three people other than one person. On the reaction to the Great Barrington Declaration… These vaccine fanatics who insisted that everybody should be vaccinated, including those who already have immunity from having recovered from Covid, I think they have destroyed the confidence in vaccines in general, to an extent that a small group of pre-Covid, so-called anti-vaxxers had never succeeded. So by pushing these vaccines on those who already had Covid, was both unnecessary and unethical, but it also diminishes the trust in public health authorities and diminishes the trust in vaccines. It would have been shocking if the immunity from the vaccine was better than the immunity from having recovered from Covid. We’ve known about natural immunity since 430 BC during the Athenian plague.
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