Jay Bhattacharya on blanket lockdowns: warns against

Bhattacharya warns against blanket lockdowns. The Great Barrington Declaration, which he co-authored in October 2020, argues that lockdowns “do more harm than good,” according to ABC News’s February 2026 summary — and he has continued to advocate that position into his NIH tenure (reported by HealthDay/drugs.com in February 2026). His stated reasoning is that lockdowns imposed broad social, economic, and health costs — especially on the young and working-class — while failing to optimally protect the vulnerable, a harm-benefit calculation he has defended consistently since 2020. This site presents his argument as his position, not as settled public-health consensus.

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