However, even highly-vaccinated parts of the country have seen surges in cases because of Omicron and with limited supplies, officials are starting to adjust policies. Inoculations play a key role in living with infectious diseases and the doctors that signed the Great Barrington Declaration consider them critical to helping protect vulnerable populations. Vaccines were long considered a goal in the fight against the pandemic because it was believed they would help turn the tide of the outbreak.
Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus called it "simply unethical" to allow a dangerous virus to "run free" and argued herd immunity is reached through vaccinations, not exposing people to a virus. World Health Organization director-general Dr. The Great Barrington Declaration was heavily criticized for being an ill-advised strategy that relied on sacrificing people to the virus.
Their infections would thereby lower the risk of infection to all, including the vulnerable, according to the declaration. Many of those reentering the world would likely get infected with COVID-19, but being young and healthy, they were less likely to get seriously ill. Keeping the restrictions in place, the co-authors argued, would cause "irreparable harm" particularly with regard to the underprivileged. The Great Barrington Declaration, which was signed in October 2020, called for a lifting of lockdowns to allow those who were at a lower risk of getting seriously ill from COVID-19, the young and healthy, to resume life as normal. The disease spread anyway and the vulnerable were exposed because we didn't protect them." "The illusion was that to protect the vulnerable, we needed to control disease spread. Jayanta Bhattacharya, a professor of medicine at Stanford University, told Newsweek. "There's no question there's been a sea change in thinking about this," one of the declaration's co-authors, Dr. Since the world has missed its opportunity to completely suppress COVID-19 transmission, the co-authors of the Great Barrington Declaration said policymakers are realizing they have to shift tactics away from population-wide measures. Anthony Fauci, director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, believes Omicron will find "just about everybody." But officials have bucked a return to lockdowns. While vaccines are extraordinarily helpful at preventing COVID-19 deaths, the assumption that vaccines would make a significant dent in infections has been proven wrong and Dr. Omicron, a highly infectious variant, is spreading rapidly throughout the United States, causing more than 10 million infections in less than a month. After it was dismissed as a dangerous theory with deadly consequences, the co-authors of the Great Barrington Declaration believe officials are coming around to the idea of targeted protection now that it's clear stopping COVID from spreading is an unrealistic goal.
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