Vital Health Podcast Martin Kulldorff: "Herd immunity is a scientific fact"
Jun 19, 2020
28:54
Martin Kulldorff, PhD, is a world-renowned biostatistician in the Division of Pharmacoepidemiology and Pharmacoeconomics at Harvard Medical School. His research centers on developing new statistical methods for disease surveillance, including methods for disease cluster evaluation and the early detection of disease outbreaks. His methods are used by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) in the US and almost every country in the world.
Recently, he has turned his prodigious analytical skills to the Covid-19 pandemic, serving on the CDC´s working group to evaluate the safety of any future Covid-19 vaccine. He has also been a strong advocate for age-specific approaches to managing the spread of the disease, both in major newspapers in his native Sweden and in Spiked magazine.
In this podcast we discuss the ‘anti-herders’ who view herd immunity as a misguided strategy rather than a scientifically proven phenomenon that can prevent unnecessary deaths, and Dr Kulldorff’s firm belief that the approach taken by Sweden is the correct one. Additionally, we point out recent data showing that suicides are more frequent than Covid-19 deaths as a consequence of lockdowns, and allowing those under 50 to practice safe social distancing while protecting the elderly is society’s best option. Martin Kulldorff also outlines how our approach to dealing with the pandemic is putting a heavy burden on the working classes, who are ultimately bearing the largest burden of the Covid-19 policies.
Recently, he has turned his prodigious analytical skills to the Covid-19 pandemic, serving on the CDC´s working group to evaluate the safety of any future Covid-19 vaccine. He has also been a strong advocate for age-specific approaches to managing the spread of the disease, both in major newspapers in his native Sweden and in Spiked magazine.
In this podcast we discuss the ‘anti-herders’ who view herd immunity as a misguided strategy rather than a scientifically proven phenomenon that can prevent unnecessary deaths, and Dr Kulldorff’s firm belief that the approach taken by Sweden is the correct one. Additionally, we point out recent data showing that suicides are more frequent than Covid-19 deaths as a consequence of lockdowns, and allowing those under 50 to practice safe social distancing while protecting the elderly is society’s best option. Martin Kulldorff also outlines how our approach to dealing with the pandemic is putting a heavy burden on the working classes, who are ultimately bearing the largest burden of the Covid-19 policies.
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