Dennis Prager interviews the co-author of the Great Barrington Declaration, Jay Bhattacharya. Dr. Bhattacharya is a professor of medicine at Stanford University and a research associate at the National Bureau of Economic Research. He directs Stanford’s Center for Demography and Economics of Health and Aging. Bhattacharya’s research focuses on the health and well-being of populations, with a particular emphasis on the role of government programs, biomedical innovation, and economics. Most recently, Bhattacharya has focused his research on the epidemiology of COVID-19 and evaluation of the various policy responses to the epidemic. He is a co-author of the Great Barrington Declaration, a document proposing a relaxation of social controls that delay the spread of COVID-19.

A worthwhile interview.

Here are some of the signatories of Great Barrington Declaration:

• Martin Kulldorff, professor of medicine at Harvard University, a biostatistician, and epidemiologist with expertise in detecting and monitoring infectious disease outbreaks and vaccine safety evaluations.
• Sunetra Gupta, professor at Oxford University, an epidemiologist with expertise in immunology, vaccine development, and mathematical modeling of infectious diseases.
• Jay Bhattacharya, professor at Stanford University Medical School, a physician, epidemiologist, health economist, and public health policy expert focusing on infectious diseases and vulnerable populations.
• Alexander Walker, principal at World Health Information Science Consultants, former Chair of Epidemiology, Harvard TH Chan School of Public Health, USA
• Andrius Kavaliunas, epidemiologist and assistant professor at Karolinska Institute, Sweden
• Angus Dalgleish, oncologist, infectious disease expert and professor, St. George’s Hospital Medical School, University of London, England
• Anthony J Brookes, professor of genetics, University of Leicester, England
• Annie Janvier, professor of pediatrics and clinical ethics, Université de Montréal and Sainte-Justine University Medical Centre, Canada
• Ariel Munitz, professor of clinical microbiology and immunology, Tel Aviv University, Israel
• Boris Kotchoubey, Institute for Medical Psychology, University of Tübingen, Germany
• Cody Meissner, professor of pediatrics, expert on vaccine development, efficacy, and safety. Tufts University School of Medicine, USA
• David Katz, physician and president, True Health Initiative, and founder of the Yale University Prevention Research Center, USA
• David Livermore, microbiologist, infectious disease epidemiologist and professor, University of East Anglia, England
• Eitan Friedman, professor of medicine, Tel-Aviv University, Israel
• Ellen Townsend, professor of psychology, head of the Self-Harm Research Group, University of Nottingham, England
• Eyal Shahar, physician, epidemiologist and professor (emeritus) of public health, University of Arizona, USA
• Florian Limbourg, physician and hypertension researcher, professor at Hannover Medical School, Germany
• Gabriela Gomes, mathematician studying infectious disease epidemiology, professor, University of Strathclyde, Scotland
• Gerhard Krönke, physician and professor of translational immunology, University of Erlangen-Nuremberg, Germany
• Gesine Weckmann, professor of health education and prevention, Europäische Fachhochschule, Rostock, Germany
• Günter Kampf, associate professor, Institute for Hygiene and Environmental Medicine, Greifswald University, Germany
• Helen Colhoun, professor of medical informatics and epidemiology, and public health physician, University of Edinburgh, Scotland
• Jonas Ludvigsson, pediatrician, epidemiologist and professor at Karolinska Institute and senior physician at Örebro University Hospital, Sweden
• Karol Sikora, physician, oncologist, and professor of medicine at the University of Buckingham, England
• Laura Lazzeroni, professor of psychiatry and behavioral sciences and of biomedical data science, Stanford University Medical School, USA
• Lisa White, professor of modelling and epidemiology, Oxford University, England
• Mario Recker, malaria researcher and associate professor, University of Exeter, England
• Matthew Ratcliffe, professor of philosophy, specializing in philosophy of mental health, University of York, England
• Matthew Strauss, critical care physician and assistant professor of medicine, Queen’s University, Canada
• Michael Jackson, research fellow, School of Biological Sciences, University of Canterbury, New Zealand
• Michael Levitt, biophysicist and professor of structural biology, Stanford University, USA.
• Recipient of the 2013 Nobel Prize in Chemistry.
• Mike Hulme, professor of human geography, University of Cambridge, England
• Motti Gerlic, professor of clinical microbiology and immunology, Tel Aviv University, Israel
• Partha P. Majumder, professor and founder of the National Institute of Biomedical Genomics, Kalyani, India
• Paul McKeigue, physician, disease modeler and professor of epidemiology and public health, University of Edinburgh, Scotland
• Rajiv Bhatia, physician, epidemiologist and public policy expert at the Veterans Administration, USA
• Rodney Sturdivant, infectious disease scientist and associate professor of biostatistics, Baylor University, USA
• Salmaan Keshavjee, professor of Global Health and Social Medicine at Harvard Medical School, USA
• Simon Thornley, epidemiologist and biostatistician, University of Auckland, New Zealand
• Simon Wood, biostatistician and professor, University of Edinburgh, Scotland
• Stephen Bremner,professor of medical statistics, University of Sussex, England
• Sylvia Fogel, autism provider and psychiatrist at Massachusetts General Hospital and instructor at Harvard Medical School, USA
• Tom Nicholson, Associate in Research, Duke Center for International Development, Sanford School of Public Policy, Duke University, USA
• Udi Qimron, professor of clinical microbiology and immunology, Tel Aviv University, Israel
• Ulrike Kämmerer, professor and expert in virology, immunology and cell biology, University of Würzburg, Germany
• Uri Gavish, biomedical consultant, Israel
• Yaz Gulnur Muradoglu, professor of finance, director of the Behavioural Finance Working Group, Queen Mary University of London, England