Stanford University Professor Dr. Jay Bhattacharya | Stanford University website
Stanford University Professor Dr. Jay Bhattacharya | Stanford University website
Stanford University Professor Dr. Jay Bhattacharya recently tweeted that he still can’t understand why the World Health Organization (WHO) deleted "herd immunity" from its website in 2020 amid the COVID-19 pandemic.
“The WHO would have more credibility ‘standing up for science’ if it would plainly explain why it redefined herd immunity in October 2020 to exclude immunity after COVID recovery and include solely vaccine-derived immunity. And apologize for the lockdowns and school closures,” Bhattacharya wrote in a July 1 tweet.
"The World Health Organization, for reasons unknown, has suddenly changed its definition of a core conception of immunology: herd immunity,” he said, citing a December 2020 article by Jay Tucker at the American Institute for Economic Research, “WHO Deletes Naturally Acquired Immunity from Its Website.”
“Amazingly, it's true,” Bhattacharya added in a comment below his citation of the article. "It's been nearly three years, and I still can't wrap my mind around it."
In December 2022, Fox News reported that Bhattacharya was "blacklisted" by Twitter for posting content critical of government COVID-19 lockdowns.
“Dr. Bhattacharya says the suppression of fair COVID conversations on social media ultimately harmed data, children and the American public,” according to Fox News.
Bhattacharya also was critical of government COVID-19 vaccine mandates, telling Newsmax TV host Steve Cortes that such mandates are "unethical."
"(Children) are, as you say, Steve, at very low risk for bad outcomes from this virus. Very few healthy, young children died from this virus; more died from the flu last year," he said in the Newsmax interview.
Bhattacharya is a professor of health policy, senior fellow at the Stanford Institute for Economic Policy Research, a research associate at the National Bureau of Economics Research, a professor, by courtesy, of economics and a senior fellow, by courtesy, at the Freeman Spogli Institute and the Hoover Institution. He holds an MD and PhD from Stanford, according to his Stanford profile.
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