Dr Jay Bhattacharya M.D., Ph.D., is a professor at Stanford University Medical School, a physician, epidemiologist, health economist, and public health policy expert and for the past 20 years has been focusing on infectious disease epidemiology in vulnerable populations.
In April 2020 he wrote about how widespread the disease already was in California, indicating it was already too late for any lockdown strategy to eliminate the disease or get it to zero. Lockdowns ignored the basic fact that there is a thousand-fold difference in the risk of a severe outcome from infection of SARS-CoV-2 between the youngest of the population and the elderly, couple with this, the harms of the lockdowns were catastrophically devastating to the poor and working class around the world, especially children.[1]
“We viewed the lockdown’s themselves as immoral“
Dr Bhattacharya
“Florida and Sweden, who’ve followed a focused strategy have done much better in terms of over-all health outcomes compared to lockdown-focused regions where the disease spread anyway.”
On October 3 & 4, 2020 he, along with two of his eminent colleagues, Dr Sunetra Gupta (Oxford) and Dr Martin Kulldorff (Harvard), wrote The Great Barrington Declaration, and released it to the public on October 5, 2020. It was a plea to the world to take a different strategy, a more “focused protection” approach to the COVID-19 measures to prevent the inevitable devastation that would result from the current lockdown and restrictive measures.
- Dr Bhattacharya official – TWITTER
- The Great Barrington Declaration – HERE
- October 4, 2020 – TIMELINE
- Academy for Science and Freedom – WEB, WATCH
- The Norfolk Group – HERE
- The Illusion of Consensus Substack by Dr. Jay Bhattacharya and Rav Arora “Devoted to dismantling weaponized “consensus” in science” – HERE
Interviews and articles in reverse chronological order
As I find more interviews I’ll add them in
2024
November 26, 2024 – Gateway Pundit: Trump Nominates Dr. Jay Bhattacharya the Co-Author of the Great Barrington Declaration as New NIH Director – READ, TWEET
- Dr Malone just before announcement “the director of the NIH doesn’t have a whole lot of power” – WATCH
November 16, 2024 – The Washington Post: Jay Bhattacharya, an (National Institute of Health) NIH critic, emerges as a top candidate to lead the agency – The Stanford physician was excoriated by NIH’s director in 2020 for his “fringe” ideas on covid. Four years later, he’s poised for power in Trump’s Washington. – READ, ARCHIVE, Gateway Pundit – READ
- “Bhattacharya is a strong candidate to lead the nearly $50 billion agency in the coming Trump administration, with his name on an internal list of contenders being compiled by Robert F. Kennedy Jr., according to four people who spoke on the condition of anonymity to discuss private conversations. Kennedy was selected Thursday by President-elect Donald Trump to run the Department of Health and Human Services, which oversees NIH.”
July 31, 2024 – Dad Saves America: Dr. Jay Bhattacharya on COVID, Myocarditis, and Vaccines – WATCH
June 5, 2024 – Reason Magazine Interview: Jay Bhattacharya: ‘I Sued the Biden Administration for COVID Censorship’- Bhattacharya explains the stakes of Murthy v. Missouri, the politicization of medical research, and his RFK Jr. endorsement – READ, WATCH
- Q. “You are not anti-vaccine are you?” A: “No” answers Dr B “I really hate that term now…” – EXCERPT
No…I should say I really hate that term [anti-vaxxer] now, and I think it’s a term of derision, aimed at undermining a conversation that ought to happen
May 17, 2024 – Illusion of Consensus: Is Censorship a Desperate Last Stand for Power? Ft: Russell Brand – WATCH
May 5, 2024 – Just The News: Dr. Jay Bhattacharya calls for reforming public health’s pandemic response – WATCH
- He’s been working on a public health reform plan for the next president to assess and fix the failures of government health agencies’ pandemic response…
March 10, 2024 – Illusion of Consusus Episode 35: Paul Thacker On The Illusion of Consensus Of Masking – WATCH
- March 24, 2024 – Paul Thacker: Interview On Mask Science With Stanford’s Jay Bhattacharya- Everything you need to know about mask madness (or at least most of it) in one hour – READ
Febraury 14, 2024 – Illusion of Consensus podcast Episode 31: Lee Fang (investigative journalist) On Moderna’s Disturbing Surveillance Of Dr. Jay Bhattacharya And Other Covid Dissidents – WATCH
- Censorship, academic harassment, public-private instustry collusion, loss of public trust and much more
- Society is facing a crisis of trust in relation to vaccines and public health
Febraury 11, 2024 – Illusion of Consensus: Governor Ron DeSantis Roundtable On Florida’s First Grand Jury Report w/ Dr Ladapo – Includes testimony from Dr. Jay Bhattacharya, Dr. Martin Kuldorff and Bret Weinstein – WATCH, READ, on X
2023
November 27, 2023 – Illusion of Consensus Episode 20: Dr. Reid Sheftall On Questioning The Covid Narrative – LISTEN, CREDIT
September 13, 2023 – The Disinforamtion Chronicle by Paul D. Thacker: Dr. Jay Bhattacharya Speaks Out Against Stanford University Bullying And Interference With Inconvenient COVID Research – The time has come for an honest evaluation of COVID policy failures to prevent deaths when the next pandemic hits. – READ
September 13, 2023 – The Illusion of Consensus Substack: The Government Censored Me and Other Scientists. We are Winning the Battle as We Head to the Supreme Court – READ
- “…rather than following court orders and respecting the First Amendment, the government has appealed the case. Coercive censorship is the preferred state of rotten affairs in the White House. This means the case will go to the Supreme Court.”
September 12, 2023 – Disinformation Chronicle Substack: Dr. Jay Bhattacharya Reveals Stanford University’s Attempts To Derail COVID Studies – READ
July 24, 2023 – The illusion of Consensus | Episode 10: Dr. Kat Lindley on The Global Health Project – LISTEN, READ, Global Health Project – WEB
June 23, 2023 (Recorded)- The Glenn Show: A COVID Dissenter Speaks Out | Glenn Loury & Jay Bhattacharya – WATCH, Illusion of Consensus – READ
- Gain of Function research is impossible to do safely – EXCERPT
- “Fauci’s blunder was so catastrophic that only history can judge him” – EXCERPT
June 23, 2023 – The Kim Iversen Show: Dr Jay Bhattacharya | The Censorship of COVID Lockdown Critics: How the Science Was Silenced – WATCH
June 20, 2023 – Stunning FOIA revelation! TWEET, Washington Examiner – READ
June 8, 2023 – Ask Dr Drew Show Weaponized Redactions: What’s The CDC Hiding In FOIA Requests? w/ Dr Jay Bhattacharya – WATCH
April 15, 2023 – National Citizen Inquiry Canada | Day 1 Winnipeg Hearing: Dr. Jay Bhattacharya: Author of Great Barrington Declaration, Testifies – WATCH, WEBSITE
May 28, 2023 – The Jimmy Dore Show: LA Times Prints DUMBEST Covid Article In History! interview with Dr. Jay Bhattacharya – WATCH, The Illusion of Consensus – READ
- The lockdown-focused strategy urged by scientific bureaucrats – and implemented in nearly every country worldwide – failed to protect the world from Covid and caused devastating collateral harms to the poor, to children, and to the working class.”
March 28, 2023 – US House Energy & Commerce Committee – Communications and Technology Subcommittee: Hearing on “Preserving Freedom and Reining in Big Tech Censorship – Dr. Jay Bhattacharya testimony – EXCERPT, WATCH
February 28, 2023 – Select Subcommittee Roundtable (US Gov): Preparing For the Future By Learning From the Past: Examining COVID Policy Decisions – Select Subcommittee on the Coronavirus Pandemic heard Witnesses: Dr. Jay Bhattacharya, Dr. Martin Kulldorff, Dr. Marty Makary, Dr. Georges C. Benjamin – WATCH, TRANSCRIPT, FULL, READ, NOTICE, Opening Statement by Mr Wenstrup – WATCH, READ
There’s near universal agreement [between all scientists] that what we did failed!
Official counts contribute more than a million deaths to covid in the United States and almost 7 million world wide. By early 2022 about 95% of Americans had contracted covid despite the harsh countermeasures…very clearly these measures failed to protect Americans from covid.
Dr Bhattacharya
- Lockdowns failed to prevent the spread of covid – at best they protected the “laptop class”
- School closures, of over a year or more, have set kids behind in ways that will lead them to worse outcomes as adults, including shorter, poorer lives…with poor and minority children worse off.
- “Why was the age-gradient in covid risk ignored in sending covid-infected patients back to nursing homes early in the pandemic where we knew the most volnerable people resided?“
Public health bureaucrat operated more like dictators than scientists during the pandemic. Sealing themselves off from credible outside criticism…
Public health bureaucrat organised a cover up of the hypothesis that covid emerged as a result of a laboratory leak, calling scientists who proposed the idea conspiracy theorists.
Dr Bhattacharya
The Norfolk Blueprint – 80 pages of questions that need to be answered by the COVID-19 commission – HERE, PDF, EXCERPT
February 10, 2023 – Brownstone Institute: A Blueprint for a Serious Investigation – READ
- The Norfolk Blueprint – a comprehensive review of critical issues to be addressed in view to assess pandemic management as it was conducted in 2020-21 and as it may be conducted next time.
February 6, 2023 – QUESTIONS FOR A COVID-19 COMMISSION by The Norfolk Group – PDF, The Norfolk Group Website – HERE
January 21, 2023 – Independent Truths with Dr. Scott Atlas Ep 2: Jay Bhattacharya Interview – WATCH
2022
December 16, 2022 – Unherd with Freddie Sayers: What I discovered at Twitter HQ – Someone had put me on the trends blacklist interview with Jay Bhattacharya – WATCH, READ, Big Tech Sneaking in a Social Credit System – EXCERPT, Epoch Times – READ
December 14, 2022 – Ask Dr Drew Show: Dr. Jay Bhattacharya: Fauci & “Weaponized Empathy” Led To Lockdowns & COVID Censorship (Twitter Files) – WATCH
December 9, 2022 – Real Clear Politics: Bhattacharya: Twitter Harmed Science By Banning Debate on COVID, Censorship Led To Tremendously Bad Policies – READ, The Twitter Files – The blacklist – THREAD
October 14, 2022 – John Anderson: Rethinking Covid | Jay Bhattacharya & Gigi Foster – WATCH, EXCERPT, EXCERT2, The failure of COVID lockdowns – EXCERPT3
September 28, 2022 – Ask Dr. Drew with Dr. Kelly Victory: Did Pandemic Lockdowns CAUSE Today’s Economic Crisis? Dr. Jay Bhattacharya on Healthcare Economics – WATCH, READ, EXCERPT, revist in 2024 – WATCH
“they had to create this illusion of consensus”
Dr Jay Bhattacharya
- The phase “social distancing” is made up, it is not found in any textbook says Dr Kelly Victory, [which in Jan 2024 Dr Fauci, under oath, confirms to be true, the 6 foot rule “sort of just appeared” – TIMELINE]
September 23, 2022 – 2022 Doshi Family Bridgebuilder Award Ceremony: Honoring Dr. Jay Bhattacharya – Presentation: “COVID Science, COVID Policy, and the Chruch” – WATCH, FULL
- Dr. Bhattacharya explores the public health response to the COVID pandemic, specifically the impact of unprecedented interventions. While these policies sought to limit the spread of COVID, they were also responsible for far-reaching and adverse economic, physical, and mental health consequences – especially for the poor, the working-class, and children…
September 23, 2022 – “Dr Jay Bhattacharya in Sydney last night on the coordinated propaganda campaign to smear and reframe the co-authors of the Great Barrington Declaration as fringe epidemiologists to suppress dissent and manufacture scientific consent for lockdown” – TWEET, The Age – ARTICLE
September 21, 2022 – IPA: International Expert Dr Jay Bhattacharya Welcomes IPA Covid Response Research – Professor Dr Jay Bhattacharya is in Australia at the Institute of Public Affairs (IPA) launch of their two ground-breaking research papers on the impact of Australia’s failed response to the COVID-19 pandemic – READ, Press Release – HERE, CREDIT
Australia’s Covid-19 Pandemic Response Failed Us – READ
The two research papers by IPA:
August 19, 2022 – C-SPAN: Sweden’s Response to COVID-19 Pandemic – Academics and other professionals compared the COVID-19 responses of Sweden and the United States, in a Cato Institute virtual discussion. – WATCH
June 24, 2022 – Ivor Cummin: Ep145 Professor Jay Bhattacharya of Stanford: A Superb Conversation! – WATCH
May 31, 2022 – Kitco News: Stanford scientist: Lockdowns were ‘harmful,’ ‘no good evidence’ they stopped COVID – Jay Bhattacharya – WATCH, READ
May 8, 2022 – Dr Bhattacharya: Public health lost the trust of the public during the pandemic because it focused on authoritarian nonsense instead of protecting vulnerable older people from infection. – Trail of “illegal” surfing – TWEET
April 22, 2022 – Reason TV: Dr. Jay Bhattacharya on Our COVID Response – WATCH
April 14, 2022 – Fox News | Tucker Carlson – Life Expectancy in the U.S. Declines for the Second Straight Year – Dr. Bhattacharya – “”We’re seeing [more] deaths among young people. I think this is the fruits of a policy that has made isolation into a virtue.” – WATCH, TWEET
March 14, 2022 – Epoch Times | Facts Matter: Deaths Represent 1.3% of Reported Side Effects: Peer-Reviewed CDC Study; CDC Changes Risk Formula – ref Barrington Declaration – WATCH
March 7, 2022 – Closing the Curtain on COVID Theater – Gov. Ron DeSantis roundtable – Dr Jay Bhattacharya – WATCH, FULL
“The lockdowns were an enormous catastrophic mistake, that should never be repeated.
Dr Jay Bhattacharya
- Silencing of scientists needs to stop
- The effect on kid’s (especially poor) has been catastrophic, one study re no school (world wide) = “our kids would lose 5 1/2 million life-years”, loss of learning has ripple consequences through their lifetime! – EXCERPT
- “We have essentially robbed a generation of children their birthright!” – EXCERPT
“The CDC is the only public health agency in the world that is recommending toddlers, 2-5 years old, still be masked, with literally not a single randomised study of any sort…showing it has any consequence on the spread of the disease”
EXCERPT
January 16, 2022 – The Highwire: MAINSTREAM’S COVID NARRATIVE COMES CRASHING DOWN – The Mainstream narrative on Covid, propped up by legacy media and captured public health agencies, has come crashing down around even the most passionate lockdown and mandate enthusiasts who have been forced to turn tail and embrace tenets of the once castigated Great Barrington Declaration. – WATCH
January 15, 2022 – Brownstone Institute: What Might Have Been: Calm, Protection, and Care – READ
2021
December 21, 2021 – WSJ: How Fauci and Collins Shut Down Covid Debate – They worked with the media to trash the Great Barrington Declaration. “In public, Anthony Fauci and Francis Collins urge Americans to “follow the science.” In private, the two sainted public-health officials schemed to quash dissenting views from top scientists.” FOIA emails reveal – READ
December 21, 2021 – Brownstone Institute: We Cannot Stop the Spread of COVID, But We Can End the Pandemic by Jayanta Bhattacharya – READ
December 20, 2021 – National Review: America Needs a Rebirth of Science – By Scott W. Atlas, Jay Bhattacharya & Martin Kulldorff – READ, ARCHIVE
- “…we have seen the biggest public-health fiasco in history, and the marginalization and censoring of dissident scientists. The pandemic has exposed myriad long-standing problems facing science that go far beyond a single virus.
- “…the majority of U.S. infectious-disease research is funded by the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID). With Dr. Anthony Fauci as its director, infectious-disease scientists think twice before criticizing the pandemic policies advocated by Dr. Fauci.
- “The conflict of interest between Dr. Fauci’s roles as funder and lockdown architect is merely one example of how those within existing power structures in the scientific community control which ideas are deemed valid.”
- “Those who control the funding and the publication are often the same people, and peer review itself has shifted from controlling quality to controlling ideas.
- “…science must be reformed, restored, and reinvigorated so all scientists can engage with independence and boldness in the pursuit of a never-ending horizon.
- “The scientific process has always been based on truth-seeking, disagreement, and the free exchange of ideas...free from fear of censorious ramifications.
- “…science today rewards conformity
- “we are partnering with Hillsdale College to help return science to its proper form.” – The Academy for Science and Freedom.
True science involves a dialectical process: One hypothesis brings forth competing ones; to settle conflicting hypotheses, research is conducted. That’s how science is supposed to work. That’s how science helps us learn.
The Academy for Science and Freedom
December 2021 – Launch – WATCH
The Academy for Science and Freedom will be a collaboration between Hillsdale College and three leading scientists: Dr. Martin Kulldorff, Dr. Jay Bhattacharya, and Dr. Scott W. Atlas. – READ, OVERVIEW
December 19, 2022 – Brownstone Institute: Fauci’s War on Science: The Smoking Gun – re Great Barrington Declaration – READ
October 16, 2021 – Steve Hilton: How Panic Shaped Public Policy ft. Dr. Jay Bhattacharya – WATCH, READ
October 13, 2021 – Hoover Institute | Uncommon Knowledge: What Happened: Dr. Jay Bhattacharya On 19 Months Of COVID – Peter Robinson interview with Jay Bhattacharya – WATCH, TRANSCRIPT
- “From the very beginning of the COVID-19 crisis, Dr. Jay Bhattacharya has been on the front lines of analyzing, studying, and even personally fighting the pandemic. In this wide-ranging interview, Dr. Bhattacharya takes us through how it started, how it spread throughout the world, the efficacy of lockdowns, the development and distribution of the vaccines, and the rise of the Delta variant. He delves into what we got right, what we got wrong, and what we got really wrong. Finally, Dr. Bhattacharya looks to the future and how we will learn to live with COVID rather than trying to extinguish it, and how we might be prepared to deal with another inevitable pandemic that we know will arrive at some point.”
August 24, 2021 – Fox News | The Ingraham Angle: ‘The Ingraham Angle’ on Afghan crisis, COVID-19 vaccine mandates – WATCH & TRANSCRIPT
- Dr. Jay Bhattacharya’s reaction to FDA’s apporval of Pfizer’s COVID-19 vaccine today, which “President Biden is using it as justification to take away your rights.”
“…the FDA approval does not change the fact that we don’t have long-term safety data with the vaccine.“
stated Dr Jay Bhattacharya
“If you’re a business leader, a nonprofit leader, a state and local leader who has been waiting for full FDA approval to require vaccinations, I call on you now to do that, require it. Vaccination requirements have been around for decades, and it only makes sense to require a vaccine to stop the spread of COVID-19“
Joe Biden (D), President of the United States
August 24, 2021 – Jay Bhattacharya re Great Barrington Declaration: “Mortality from #COVID19 differs more than a thousand-fold between the old and young. Focused protection is the compassionate approach that balances COVID risks and collateral damage to public health” – TWEET
August 2, 2021 – Brownstone Institute: The UK Plot to Silence Lockdown Critics by Martin Kulldorff and Jayanta Bhattacharya – READ
May 25, 2021 – Fox News | Ingraham Angle: Prof Jay Bhattacharya says Fauci needs to be replaced with somebody who hasn’t burned all of their credibility – READ & WATCH
- “He’s [Fauci] been wrong time and time again and he’s led the public a stay time and time again, in some cases admitting he did so intentionally”
- “More children died last year from the flu than covid” says Dr B….“the schools should be opened now, everywhere”.
April 6, 2021 – WSJ | Opinion: Vaccine Passports Prolong Lockdowns – What looks like an easing of restrictions is actually a coercive scheme – By Martin Kulldorff and Jay Bhattacharya – READ
March 18, 2021 – Roundtable Discussion on Public Health with Governor of Florida: Gupta/Kulldorff/Bhattacharya/Atlas – On lockdowns – WATCH, SOURCE
February 22, 2021 – International Journal of Epidemiology: COVID-19 antibody seroprevalence in Santa Clara County, California – Bendavid, Bhattacharya et al – READ, preprint April 11, 2020 – PDF, The Santa Clara study, the story – READ
February 11, 2021 – Daily Clout with Naomi Wolf: “Prof Jay Bhattacharya, Signatory of Gt Barrington Declaration: Why ‘Lockdown’ Will Kill Millions” – WATCH, ARCHIVE
January 6, 2021 – PANDA: The Spirit of Science | Jay Bhattacharya – WATCH
January 5, 2021 – European Journal of Clinical Investigation (Eur J Clin Inv): Assessing mandatory stay-at-home and business closure effects on the spread of COVID-19 -by Bendavid, Oh, Bhattacharya, Ioannidis – READ, Newsweek – ARTICLE
2020
December 8, 2020 – C-SPAN: Medical Response to COVID-19 – Dr. Jay Bhattacharya – @2h 30m WATCH
- The Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee heard from medical professionals who advocate for alternative COVID-19 treatments and mitigation measures to those of the National Institutes of Health, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, and World Health Organization.
November 6, 2020 – JAMA Network: Herd Immunity as a Coronavirus Pandemic Strategy – WATCH,
- Brownstone Institute: Lockdowns vs. Focused Protection: The Debate Between Lipstich and Bhattacharya – TRANSCRIPT
- Journal of the American Medical Association sponsored an important debate between Stanford’s Jay Bhattacharya and Harvard’s Marc Lisitch over the policy response to the pandemic, They have very different points of view, with Jay favoring “focussed protection” and traditional public health measures, while Marc is on the side of the novel “non-pharmaceutical intervention” side, e.g. lockdowns
November 1, 2020 – Electroverse: 44,000 Scientists, Public Health Experts, and Clinicians sign a Declaration that states Lockdowns don’t work – READ
October 29, 2020 – The Spectator: It’s time for an alternative to lockdown by Jay Bhattacharya – READ
October 8, 2020: The Highwire Ep 184 : OVER 17,000 HEALTH EXPERTS SIGN HISTORIC COVID DECLARATION – WATCH, FULL, Jeffery Jaxen – ARTICLE
October 5, 2020- UnHerd: Dissenting scientists issue Covid-19 herd immunity declaration – Freddie Sayers talks to eminent epidemiologists Dr Sunetra Gupta, Dr Jay Bhattacharya and Dr. Martin Kulldorff, who met in Massachusetts to sign a declaration calling for a different global response to the pandemic. – WATCH, ARCHIVE,
Covid experts: there is another way – ARTICLE
The Great Barrington Declaration
October 5, 2020 – The Great Barrington Declaration is released to the public, for anyone to sign. – READ
July 14, 2020 – CSPAN: House Hearing on Ensuring Safe COVID-19 Vaccine – Jay Bhattacharya – FULL
April 17, 2020 – Hoover Institute | Uncommon Knowledge: The Fight Against COVID-19: An Update From Dr. Jay Bhattacharya – WATCH, READ
April 11, 2020 – Paper: COVID-19 Antibody Seroprevalence in Santa Clara County, California by Bendavid et al incl, John Ioannidis, Jay Bhattacharya – PDF IFR 0.2%,, Published February 22, 2021 – READ
- “The population prevalence of SARS-CoV-2 antibodies in Santa Clara County implies that the infection is much more widespread than indicated by the number of confirmed cases.”
- Thus infection fatality rate is considerably lower than the assumptions used to justify lockdowns i.e. IFR 0.2%
- In line with Trump! – MONTAGE
March 27, 2020 – Hoover Institute | Uncommon Knowledge: Questioning Conventional Wisdom In The COVID-19 Crisis, With Dr. Jay Bhattacharya – WATCH & READ
March 24, 2020 – Wall Street Journal: Is the Coronavirus as Deadly as They Say? – Current estimates about the Covid-19 fatality rate may be too high by orders of magnitude by Eran Bendavid and Jay Bhattacharya – READ, ARCHIVE, STANFORD
