The 37-year Stanford professor of health policy was extremely vocal about the need to open schools early on in the pandemic, facing tremendous pushback within the academic community as well as inside government agencies that advocated for closure amid a rise in cases. Bhattacharya reflected on his and president of The Foundation for Research on Equal Opportunity Avik Roy’s similar findings at the 2023 Forbes Healthcare Summit in New York on Tuesday. You’re going to be excommunicated.”Bhattacharya said he was placed on a “blacklist” on X, formerly known as Twitter, for his very first post on the platform encouraging officials to open schools. Roy, who also serves as a policy editor at Forbes, supported that the evidence at the time to keep schools open, as exhibited in other countries, was overwhelming. Had we won the argument or the policy argument of the schools, our kids now would be in much better shape,” he said.

Source: Forbes December 09, 2023 02:00 UTC