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| − | | name = Jay Bhattacharya | + | |exposed= |
| − | | birth_date = 1968 | + | |wikipedia=https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jay_Bhattacharya |
| − | | birth_place = [[Kolkata]], [[India]] | + | |birth_place=Kolkata |
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| − | * [[Stanford University]]
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| − | '''Jay Bhattacharya''' (born 1968 in [[Kolkata]], India) is a professor of medicine at [[Stanford University]] and a research associate at the [[National Bureau of Economic Research]]. He directs Stanford's Center for Demography and Economics of Health and Aging. Bhattacharya's research focuses on the health and well-being of populations, with a particular emphasis on the role of government programs, [[Biomedicine|biomedical]] innovation, and economics.<ref name=":0">{{Cite web|title=Jay Bhattacharya, MD, PhD|url=https://healthpolicy.fsi.stanford.edu/people/jay_bhattacharya|access-date=10 November 2020|website=Stanford Health Policy}}</ref><ref name=":2">{{Cite web|last=Jones|first=Kara|date=11 August 2020|title=Jay Bhattacharya on Understanding the COVID-19 Virus|url=https://freopp.org/jay-bhattacharya-on-understanding-the-covid-19-virus-3ecbee8d6e23|access-date=16 November 2020|website=Freopp}}</ref> | + | '''Jay Bhattacharya''' is a professor of medicine at [[Stanford University]] and a research associate at the [[National Bureau of Economic Research]]. He directs Stanford's Center for Demography and Economics of Health and Aging. Bhattacharya's research focuses on the health and well-being of populations, with a particular emphasis on the role of government programs, biomedical innovation, and economics. |
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| − | Most recently, Bhattacharya has focused his research on the [[epidemiology]] of [[COVID-19|COVID-19]] and evaluation of the various policy responses to the epidemic. He is a co-author of the [[Great Barrington Declaration]], a controversial document proposing a relaxation of social controls that delay the spread of COVID-19.<ref name=":1">{{Cite web|last=Varadarajan|first=Tunku|date=23 October 2020|title=Epidemiologists Stray From the Covid Herd|url=https://www.wsj.com/articles/epidemiologists-stray-from-the-covid-herd-11603477330|access-date=10 November 2020|website=WSJ Opinion}}</ref>
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| − | == Early life and education ==
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| − | Bhattacharya has four degrees from Stanford, including an MD from [[Stanford University School of Medicine|Stanford Medical School]] and a PhD in economics.<ref name=":2" />
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| − | Bhattacharya is a professor of medicine at Stanford University, a professor by courtesy of economics at Stanford, a senior fellow at the [[Stanford Institute for Economic Policy Research]], and a senior fellow by courtesy at the [[Freeman Spogli Institute for International Studies]].<ref name=":0" />
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| − | From 2006 to 2008, he was a research fellow at the [[Hoover Institution]]. From 1998 to 2001, he was an economist at the [[RAND Corporation]] and a visiting assistant professor at the [[University of California, Los Angeles|UCLA]] Department of Economics.<ref name=":0" />{{short description|Thai virologist}}
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| − | == COVID-19 pandemic ==
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| − | Bhattacharya is a co-author of the Great Barrington Declaration, a proposal arguing for an alternative public health approach to dealing with [[COVID-19]], through “focused protection” of the people most at risk. In it, Bhattacharya and the two other researchers called on governments to overturn their coronavirus strategies and to allow young and healthy people to return to normal life while protecting the most vulnerable. This would let the virus spread in low-risk groups, with the aim of achieving “[[herd immunity]]”, which would result in enough of the population becoming resistant to the virus to quell the pandemic. The authors conceded that it was hard to protect older people in the community, but suggested individuals could shield themselves and that efforts to keep infections low "merely dragged matters out". Bhattacharya wrote the declaration with [[Martin Kulldorff]], professor of medicine at [[Harvard University]], and [[Sunetra Gupta]], professor of theoretical epidemiology at [[University of Oxford|Oxford University]]. It was published on 5 October 2020.<ref name=":1" /><ref>{{Cite web|last=Sample|first=Ian|date=6 October 2020|title=Scientists call for Covid herd immunity strategy for young|url=https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/oct/06/scientists-call-for-herd-immunity-covid-strategy-for-young|access-date=20 November 2020|website=The Guardian}}</ref>
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| − | The World Health Organization and numerous academic and public-health bodies have stated that the proposed strategy is dangerous, unethical, and lacks a sound scientific basis.<ref name=GuardianTedros>{{cite news|author=Staff and agencies in Geneva|date=12 October 2020|title=WHO chief says herd immunity approach to pandemic 'unethical'|newspaper=The Guardian|url=https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/oct/12/who-chief-says-herd-immunity-approach-to-pandemic-unethical|access-date=October 12, 2020}}</ref><ref name=WHOTedros>{{cite web|url=https://www.who.int/dg/speeches/detail/who-director-general-s-opening-remarks-at-the-media-briefing-on-covid-19---12-october-2020|title=WHO Director-General's opening remarks at the media briefing on COVID-19 – 12 October 2020|date=12 October 2020|access-date=12 October 2020|publisher=World Health Organization}}</ref>
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| − | Writing for [[Science-Based Medicine]], [[David Gorski]] speculated whether the scientists fronting the declaration were simply being [[useful idiot]]s for [[American Institute for Economic Research]], the organization promoting it, or whether they were actively being "motivated more by ideology than science", but said that the practical effect was that the declaration provided a narrative of scientific division useful for political purposes.<ref name="sbm">{{cite web |publisher=[[Science-Based Medicine]] |author=David Gorski |author-link=David Gorski |url=https://sciencebasedmedicine.org/great-barrington-declaration/ |title=The Great Barrington Declaration: COVID-19 deniers follow the path laid down by creationists, HIV/AIDS denialists, and climate science deniers |date=12 October 2020}}</ref>
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| − | In an interview, Bhattacharya said he hoped the declaration would prompt a dialogue about the benefits and harms of public health interventions.<ref>{{Cite journal|last=Lenzer|first=Jeanne|date=7 October 2020|title=Covid-19: Group of UK and US experts argues for "focused protection" instead of lockdowns|url=https://www.bmj.com/content/371/bmj.m3908|access-date=10 November 2020|journal=The BMJ (Clinical Research Ed.)|volume=371|pages=m3908|doi=10.1136/bmj.m3908|pmid=33028622|publisher=[[British Medical Association]]|doi-access=free}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|date=4 October 2020|title=Great Barrington declaration and petition|url=https://gbdeclaration.org/|access-date=10 November 2020|website=Great Barrington Declaration Website}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|last=Moffitt|first=Mike|date=13 October 2020|title=Stanford professor's anti-lockdown movement faces fierce resistance|url=https://www.sfgate.com/science/article/Stanford-prof-s-anti-lockdown-movement-faces-15644375.php|access-date=10 November 2020|website=sfgate}}</ref> In May 2020 Bhattacharya met with U.S. President [[Donald Trump]]'s health officials to explain his criticism of lockdown policy and his proposal of "focused protection" on people.<ref>{{Cite web|last=Hellmann|first=Jessie|date=10 May 2020|title=Trump health official meets with doctors pushing herd immunity|url=https://thehill.com/policy/healthcare/519727-trump-health-official-meets-with-doctors-pushing-herd-immunity|access-date=10 November 2020|website=The Hill}}</ref>
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| − | == Publications ==
| + | From [[2006]] to 2008, he was a research fellow at the [[Hoover Institution]]. From [[1998]] to 2001, he was an economist at the [[RAND Corporation]] and a visiting assistant professor at the UCLA Department of Economics. |
| − | Bhattacharya has published 135 articles in peer-reviewed scientific journals in the fields of medicine, economics, health policy, epidemiology, statistics, law, and public health, among others.
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| − | * {{Cite journal|last=Bendavid|first=Eran|last2=Oh|first2=Christopher|last3=Bhattacharya|first3=Jay|last4=Ioannidis|first4=John P.A.|author-link4=John Ioannidis|date=2021|title=Assessing Mandatory Stay‐at‐Home and Business Closure Effects on the Spread of COVID‐19|journal=European Journal of Clinical Investigation|language=en|doi=10.1111/eci.13484|issn=0014-2972|doi-access=free}}
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| − | * Technological Progress and Health Convergence: The Case of Penicillin in Post-War Italy
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| − | * Will Divestment from Employment-Based Health Insurance Save Employers Money? The Case of State and Local Governments
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| − | * The Gorbachev anti-alcohol campaign and Russia's mortality crisis
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| − | * Public Avoidance and the Epidemiology of Novel H1N1 Influenza A
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| − | * {{Cite journal|last=Bhattacharya|first=Jay|last2=Bundorf|first2=Kate|last3=Pace|first3=Noemi|last4=Sood|first4=Neeraj|date=2009|title=Does Health Insurance Make You Fat?|url=http://www.nber.org/papers/w15163.pdf|language=en|location=Cambridge, MA|pages=w15163|doi=10.3386/w15163}}
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| − | * Chronic Disease and Trends in Severe Disability in Working-age Populations
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| − | * Incidence of the Healthcare Costs of Obesity<ref name=":0" />
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| + | In [[2020]], Bhattacharya has focused his research on the epidemiology of [[COVID-19]] and evaluation of the various policy responses to the epidemic. He is a co-author of the [[Great Barrington Declaration]], proposing relaxation of [[social controls]] that delay the spread of COVID-19.<ref>https://gbdeclaration.org/</ref><ref>http://archive.today/2020.10.08-093407/https://www.zerohedge.com/medical/over-7000-scientists-doctors-call-covid-herd-immunity-end-lockdowns</ref><ref>https://lockdownsceptics.org/risk-of-asymptomatic-spread-minimal-variants-over-hyped-masks-pointless-an-interview-with-professor-jay-bhattacharya/ saved at [http://web.archive.org/web/20210325171323/https://lockdownsceptics.org/risk-of-asymptomatic-spread-minimal-variants-over-hyped-masks-pointless-an-interview-with-professor-jay-bhattacharya/ Archive.org] saved at [https://archive.is/2gv9S Archive.is]</ref> |
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Jay Bhattacharya 
