Article contentDr. David Naylor understands COVID-19 fatigue. “We had a taste of freedom as the summer wore on,” said Naylor, co-chair of Canada’s COVID-19 immunity task force, and now a “pretty dismal” winter looms, with on-again, off-again restrictions. Try refreshing your browser, or New declaration calls for 'focused protection' to achieve COVID-19 herd immunity. Critics say it would be deadly Back to video“Obviously, the Great Barrington fix will excite the minimizers who pretend COVID-19 is not much worse than the flu and enliven the libertarians who object to public health measures on principle,” Naylor wrote in an email to the National Post. “So be it: they’ve been offside all along.”Thousands have signed the so-called “Great Barrington Declaration,” a 510-word pronouncement authored by three academics from Harvard, Stanford and Oxford universities who are advocating an age-targeted, “focused protection” approach to managing the global COVID-19 crisis.

Source: National Post October 08, 2020 22:18 UTC