Topic: Martin Kulldorff

RFK Jr. has named several prominent skeptics of COVID-19 mitigation strategies to the new vaccine advisory panel, including Dr. Robert Malone and Dr. Martin Kulldorff. The appointments are intended to restore public trust by including experts who questioned lockdowns and mRNA mandates. This shift represents a significant departure from the previous consensus-driven approach of the CDC.

Francis Collins expressed regret over calling the authors of the Great Barrington Declaration "fringe epidemiologists" but maintained that their proposal for focused protection was dangerous. The declaration, authored by scientists from Oxford, Harvard, and Stanford, advocated for allowing the virus to spread among the healthy to build natural immunity while protecting the elderly.