Dr. J. Bhattacharya: “Dr. Fauci’s been involved in infectious disease control for a very long time. He is a preeminent scientist for a good reason; he is an expert. But in early February, March, we sort of put him on a pedestal...

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"to essentially give his knowledge about a whole range of things, some of which was in his control and knowledge set, and some of which was not. And I saw him a few months ago… where he very humbly said, look, I’m giving you my expertise,...

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"as an infectious disease expert, on how to manage this disease. I’m not looking at the broader policy context.

“We think about science like giving us all the answers, but that’s a mistake. What science does is it tells us if we do A, we might get B...

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"It’s up to… non-scientists to make a decision: Do we want to get B if we know the cost of getting B are C, D, and E? Do we really want zero COVID?...

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"If you get zero COVID—I don’t know if it’s even technically feasible—we know that we’re going to have to destroy our society in order to get it. We’ll have to get rid of all of our freedoms; we’ll have to make sure that very few people interact with each other; ...

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"essentially, it’s so high a cost that it’s not worth it. Science can tell us, here’s how you can maximize the probability of getting zero COVID, but it’s up to non-scientists to decide whether it’s worth it...

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"You can’t put one person on a pedestal and ask them to make that decision for society. I love that I live in a democratic society where those kinds of decisions aren’t up to experts; it’s up to people deciding together through electoral processes what we value...

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"I think that is important to remember: we shouldn’t elevate one person as the arbiter of all the right things to do on infectious disease…”

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