257: What we got wrong about COVID lockdowns | Martin Kulldorff, Ph.D., M.Sc.

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🗓️ 30 October 2020

⏱️ 48 minutes

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Martin Kulldorff, Ph.D.,M.Sc.: “We haven’t protected people in lower-income populations, and we've especially failed in the inner cities.” Kulldorff, an infectious disease epidemiologist and co-author of the Great Barrington Declaration, joins mbg co-CEO, Jason Wachob, to discuss what we know about COVID transmission today (and what we got wrong with lockdowns), plus: *Why herd immunity is the most misunderstood term of 2020* *The potential collateral damage from lockdowns* *Why children are unlikely to transmit the virus to others* *How to flatten the curve for all populations* *What people can do to help high-risk individuals* This week's episode is brought to you by our supplements+ line! Visit shop.mindbodygreen.com, and use the code JASON10 for 10% off all of our life-changing products! Enjoy this episode! Whether it's an article or podcast, we want to know what we can do to help here at mindbodygreen. Let us know at: [email protected]. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:47.0	So here we are. It's October 30th you're listening to us and COVID is
0:51.9	spiking again across America and in many parts
0:54.4	of the world. Some parts of Europe are locking down again. Here in the US some kids are physically
0:58.8	attending school, others are still in virtual. What's the right approach for us for trying to live our lives?
1:04.1	After all, we still don't know when we'll have a vaccine or how effective it'll be. Where's
1:08.0	this leave us? Is there a best hope herd immunity? Or if some scientists call it population immunity?
1:14.4	Today's guest Dr Martin Caldorf goes as far as saying quote
1:19.2	herd immunity is the most misunderstood term of 2020."
1:23.0	So who is Dr. Martin Kaldorf?
1:26.0	He's a professor of medicine at Harvard,
1:28.0	a biostatistician, an epidemiologist with an expertise in detecting and monitoring infectious
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