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Dr. Scott Atlas' talk at the PECC Plenary meeting, which provides his perspective on how decisions were made in the White House regarding the policy to address COVID-19.

I am no longer a professor of medicine at Harvard. The Harvard motto is Veritas, Latin for truth. But, as I discovered, truth can get you fired. This is my story—a story of a Harvard biostatistician and infectious-disease epidemiologist, clinging to the truth as the world lost its way during the Covid pandemic. ...

With schools open, Sweden had zero Covid deaths in the one-to-15 age group, while teachers had the same mortality as the average of other professions. Based on those facts, summarized in a July 7, 2020, report by the Swedish Public Health Agency, all U.S. schools should have quickly reopened. Not doing so led to “startling evidence on learning loss” in the United States, especially among lower- and middle-class children, an effect not seen in Sweden.

Sweden was the only major Western country that rejected school closures and other lockdowns in favor of concentrating on the elderly, and the final verdict is now in. Led by an intelligent social democrat prime minister (a welder), Sweden had the lowest excess mortality among major European countries during the pandemic, and less than half that of the United States. Sweden’s Covid deaths were below average, and it avoided collateral mortality caused by lockdowns.

Yet on July 29, 2020, the Harvard-edited New England Journal of Medicine published an article by two Harvard professors on whether primary schools should reopen, without even mentioning Sweden. It was like ignoring the placebo control group when evaluating a new pharmaceutical drug. That’s not the path to truth.

Harvard's response to the pandemic, including the firing of Martin Kulldorff, raises concerns about academic freedom and the need for reform in the scientific community.

There is a lack of randomized trial data on vaccine efficacy for older people, particularly in relation to reducing hospitalizations and deaths.

Vaccine trials have limitations in assessing rare conditions and long-term efficacy and adverse reactions.

Post-approval monitoring of vaccine safety is necessary to identify and address side effects.

The controversy over the CDC's pause on the J&J vaccine rollout had a negative impact on public trust and vaccine uptake.

Vaccine mandates should consider individual risk profiles and the availability of vaccines for vulnerable populations.

In a compelling interview with The New American, Martin Kulldorff, a former professor of medicine at Harvard and co-author of the Great Barrington Declaration, delves into the epidemiologically absurd and medically unethical Covid-19 policies and the totalitarian practice of government censorship targeting lawful speech.

The scientist unveils his instant skepticism toward Covid-19 restrictions. He confessed, “I was scared of Covid for 10, maybe 20 minutes,” elucidating how early data suggested that the virus would spread globally and that it posed a miniscule threat to the majority of society. Instead of advocating targeted protection of vulnerable populations while preserving normalcy for the rest and seeking early treatments, the government, disregarding the basics of edipemiology known to humanity for millennia, opted for sweeping lockdowns and school closures, adversely (and often irreversibly) impacting both children and adults and creating collateral public health damage translated into the rise in cancers, cardiovascular diseases, mental health issues, and diabetes, as well as plummeted educational and social development in children. Notably, nations like Sweden, which embraced strategies akin to Dr. Kulldorff’s recommendations, enjoyed drastically better public health outcomes as well as lower Covid mortality rates and no academic setbacks for children.

Furthermore, the scientist raises grave concerns about the government’s suppression of dissenting voices on social media platforms. “The First Amendment is not only a right for me to speak; it’s also the right for every American to listen,” he asserts, denouncing governmental overreach as dangerous and incompatible with American values. Along with Drs. Jay Bhattacharya and Sunetra Gupta, activist Jill Hines, the Gateway Pundit’s Jim Hoft, and the states of Missouri and Louisiana, Dr. Kulldorff is a plaintiff in the Murthy v. Missouri (formerly Missouri v. Biden) case that is expected to be ruled on by the Supreme Court by June.

Additionally, Dr. Kulldorff, a former member of the Covid-19 Vaccine Safety Technical Work Group, addresses issues related to the safety and efficacy of Covid vaccines, citing serious flaws in their clinical trials and talking about the differences in excess mortality between people vaccinated with mRNA and viral-based Covid vaccines.