Jay Bhattacharya: Without Concerted Effot To Examine COVID Policy Fails, It Will Happen Again

 Stanford Health professor and Great Barrington Declaration co-author Dr. Jay Bhattacharya on Wednesday told FOX News host Sean Duffy, "Unless there's a concerted effort by political leaders to examine the failure of our COVID policies and then put in place plans so that we don't lock down again, I'm afraid it will come back."

JAY BHATTACHARYA: It was inevitable that this virus was going to infect basically everybody. It's a highly infectious respiratory disease. Our efforts to try the control the spread of it, we don't have a technology that does that.

Chinese authorities capitulated. The problem is they didn't protect their elderly population. That's still who is at high risk. There's a lot of people in China that have never been infected before that are really at high risk. Their healthcare system is much more easily overwhelmed than ours is. That's what we're seeing now. It's tragic.

At this point, there's not much I can do other than to pray for the people of China because it is absolutely a disaster what they've had to go through in the last year as a result from their move from Zero COVID to essentially letting it rip.

SEAN DUFFY, GUEST HOST: Doctor, we had the lockdowns here in the states. We shut down our schools. Our economy was decimated, not to the extent of China but do you think the U.S. has learned something from what we did and did wrong and now what China has realized that to your point you can't stop the spread of this disease. You can't lock people down and think it's not going to spread. And if another pandemic comes that we'll change course and address the pandemic differently than we have done with this pandemic?

JAY BHATTACHARYA: That's something that I'm worried about. The World Health Organization has put containment at the center of its approach to future pandemics. The Biden administration has basically, I think, rubber stamped the same kind of containment idea when there's another pandemic. Unless there's a concerted effort by political leaders to examine the failure of our COVID policies and then put in place plans so that we don't lock down again, I'm afraid it will come back.

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