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In December 2021, Kulldorff became one of the first three fellows, along with Bhattacharya and [[Scott Atlas]], at the Academy for Science and Freedom, a program of the private, conservative [[Hillsdale College]], a [[liberal arts college|liberal arts school]].<ref>{{Cite web|last1=Bragman|first1=Walker|last2=Kotch|first2=Alex|date=December 22, 2021|title=How The Koch Network Hijacked The War On COVID|url=https://www.dailyposter.com/how-the-koch-network-hijacked-the-war-on-covid/|access-date=January 19, 2022|website=The Daily Poster|language=en}}</ref>
In March 2024, Kulldorff announced that Harvard had dismissed him.<ref name=fired>{{cite web | last=Kulldorff | first=Martin | title=Harvard Tramples the Truth | website=City Journal | date=2024-03-12 |
== Views on COVID-19==
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*for "pseudoscience", ''see'' {{cite web |work=[[The Hill (newspaper)|The Hill]] |author=Reid Wilson |date=October 15, 2020 |url=https://thehill.com/homenews/state-watch/521320-great-barrington-mass-comes-out-against-great-barrington-declaration |title=Town of Great Barrington, Mass., comes out against Great Barrington Declaration}}.</ref> warning that attempting to implement it could cause many [[Excess mortality|unnecessary deaths]] with the potential of recurrent waves of disease spread as immunity decreases over time.<ref name="wsj-touts">{{Cite news|last1=Toy|first1=Sarah|last2=Hernandez|first2=Daniela|date=October 18, 2020|title=Scientists Push Back on Herd-Immunity Approach to Covid-19|language=en-US|work=[[The Wall Street Journal]]|url=https://www.wsj.com/articles/white-house-touts-document-calling-for-herd-immunity-approach-to-covid-19-crisis-11603051550|url-access=subscription|access-date=August 27, 2021|issn=0099-9660|quote=A group of scientists is pushing back on renewed calls for a herd-immunity approach to Covid-19, calling the method of managing viral outbreaks dangerous and unsupported by scientific evidence. ... If immunity wanes after several months, as it does with the flu, patients could be susceptible to the virus after being infected, they said. That, they said, would result in recurrent and potentially large waves of infection, a common occurrence before vaccines were invented.}}</ref> Kulldorff and the other authors met with US officials of the [[Presidency of Donald Trump|Trump administration]] to share their ideas on 5 October 2020, the day after the declaration was made public.<ref>{{Cite news|last1=Mandavilli|first1=Apoorva|last2=Stolberg|first2=Sheryl Gay|date=October 19, 2020|title=A Viral Theory Cited by Health Officials Draws Fire From Scientists|language=en-US|work=[[The New York Times]]|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2020/10/19/health/coronavirus-great-barrington.html|access-date=January 22, 2022|issn=0362-4331|quote=On Oct. 5, the day after the declaration was made public, the three authors — Dr. Bhattacharya, Sunetra Gupta of Oxford University and Martin Kulldorff of Harvard — arrived in Washington at the invitation of Dr. Atlas to present their plan to a small but powerful audience: the health and human services secretary, Alex M. Azar II.}}</ref>
During the pandemic Kulldorff has opposed [[Public health mitigation of COVID-19|COVID-19 disease control measures]].<ref name=sbm2>{{cite web |quote=In order to maintain the illusion that his plan had any relevance in a post-vaccine world, Dr. Kulldorff has been forced to disparage vaccines, lockdowns, and all other measures that limit the spread of the virus.|url=https://sciencebasedmedicine.org/isthatbad/ |publisher=[[Science-Based Medicine]] |vauthors=Howard J |title=Lockdowns 'Postponed the Inevitable'. Is That a Bad Thing? |date=28 August 2022}}</ref> The measures opposed include lockdowns, [[contact tracing]],<ref name=":0">{{Cite web|last=Musgrave|first=Jane|title=Coronavirus: DeSantis lays groundwork to overturn local mask mandates, chides 'lockdown' states|url=https://www.palmbeachpost.com/story/news/coronavirus/2021/03/18/coronavirus-desantis-lays-groundwork-overturn-local-mask-mandates/4748407001/|access-date=August 27, 2021|website=The Palm Beach Post|language=en-US}}</ref> vaccine mandates, and [[Face masks during the COVID-19 pandemic|mask mandates]].<ref name="MedPage2" /><ref name="bmj-lenzer">{{Cite journal|last=Lenzer|first=Jeanne|date=October 7, 2020|title=Covid-19: Group of UK and US experts argues for "focused protection" instead of lockdowns|url=https://www.bmj.com/content/371/bmj.m3908|journal=BMJ|language=en|volume=371|pages=m3908|doi=10.1136/bmj.m3908|issn=1756-1833|pmid=33028622|doi-access=free}}</ref><ref name="CBSLocal-DeSantis"/> He has spoken out against [[vaccine passports during the COVID-19 pandemic|vaccine passports]], stating they disproportionately harm the working class.<ref>{{Cite web|date=March 18, 2021|title=Gov. DeSantis: Vaccine passports are 'totally unacceptable'|url=https://nbc-2.com/news/health/2021/03/18/gov-desantis-round-table-vaccine-passports-could-be-detrimental-to-working-class/|access-date=August 27, 2021|website=NBC2 News|language=en-US}}</ref> Kulldorff and Bhattacharya opposed broad vaccine mandates, stating that the mortality risk is "a thousand fold higher" in older people than in younger people.<ref name=hill1>{{cite news | newspaper=[[The Hill (newspaper)|The Hill]] | first1=Martin | last1=Kulldorff | first2=Jay | last2=Bhattacharya | title=The ill-advised push to vaccinate the young | date=June 17, 2021 | accessdate=September 2, 2021 |
In an [[Op-ed]] in the ''[[Wall Street Journal]]'' co-authored with [[Jay Bhattacharya]], the authors stated that [[COVID-19 testing]] should not be used to "check asymptomatic children to see if it is safe for them to come to school" because of the difference in mortality risk for young persons compared to older persons. Instead, the authors wrote that "[w]ith the new CDC guidelines, strategic age-targeted viral testing will protect older people from deadly COVID-19 exposure and children and young adults from needless school closures".<ref name="MedPage2"/><ref>{{cite news |last1=Kulldorff |first1=Martin |last2=Bhattacharya |first2=Jay |title=Opinion, The Case Against Covid Tests for the Young and Healthy |url=https://www.wsj.com/articles/the-case-against-covid-tests-for-the-young-and-healthy-11599151722 |work=[[The Wall Street Journal]] |date=3 September 2020}}</ref>
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Kulldorff was a member of the Vaccine Safety Technical subgroup of CDC’s Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices.<ref name="Bloomberg-JnJ">{{Cite web|last=Peebles|first=Angelica|date=April 21, 2021|title=J&J Shot's Future Depends on 15 Cautious Vaccine Experts|url=https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2021-04-21/j-j-shot-s-u-s-future-depends-on-15-cautious-vaccine-experts|url-access=subscription|access-date=September 2, 2021|website=[[Bloomberg News|Bloomberg]]}}</ref> In April 2021, he disagreed with the CDC's pause of the [[Janssen COVID-19 vaccine|Johnson & Johnson vaccine]] rollout and argued publicly that the vaccine's benefits outweighed clotting risks, particularly for older people.<ref name="Bloomberg-JnJ" /><ref>{{Cite web|last=Kulldorff|first=Martin|date=April 17, 2021|title=The dangers of pausing the J&J vaccine|url=https://thehill.com/opinion/healthcare/548817-the-dangers-of-pausing-the-jj-vaccine|access-date=January 16, 2022|website=[[The Hill (newspaper)|The Hill]]|language=en|quote=Unfortunately, the recent "pause" on using the Johnson & Johnson vaccine will dampen the impact of this success.}}</ref>
In December 2021, Kulldorff published an essay for the [[Brownstone Institute]] in which he argued against children receiving vaccination against COVID-19, falsely claiming that [[influenza]] was a greater risk to children than COVID-19.<ref name="saves" /> In a critical response published in [[Science-Based Medicine]], Jonathan Howard noted errors and factual inaccuracies in Kulldorff's essay, pointing out that while influenza was responsible for only one child death in the 2020/21 season – while [[public health mitigation of COVID-19]] was in place – COVID-19 killed more than 1,000.<ref name=saves>{{cite web |publisher=[[Science-Based Medicine]] |title=I Disagree With an Article Called 'Vaccines Save Lives' |vauthors=Howard J |date=23 December 2021 |url=https://sciencebasedmedicine.org/i-disagree-with-an-article-called-vaccines-save-lives/}}</ref> In addition to this, Kulldorff's essay omitted that children who are infected with COVID-19 are at risk for rare but serious conditions, such as [[Multisystem inflammatory syndrome in children|MIS-C]], with 8,862 confirmed cases of children with MIS-C by March of 2023.<ref name=saves/><ref name="Maltz-Matyschsyk2023">{{cite journal |last1=Maltz-Matyschsyk |first1=Michele |last2=K. Melchiorre |first2=Clare |last3=Herbst |first3=Katherine W. |last4=Hogan |first4=Alexander H. |last5=Dibble |first5=Kristina |last6=O'Sullivan |first6=Brandon |last7=Graf |first7=Joerg |last8=Jadhav |first8=Aishwarya |last9=Lawrence |first9=David A. |last10=Lee |first10=William T. |last11=J. Carson |first11=Kyle |last12=Radolf |first12=Justin D. |last13=C. Salazar |first13=Juan |last14=Lynes |first14=Michael A. |title=Development of a biomarker signature using grating-coupled fluorescence plasmonic microarray for diagnosis of MIS-C |journal=Frontiers in Bioengineering and Biotechnology |date=31 March 2023 |volume=11 |doi=10.3389/fbioe.2023.1066391 |doi-access=free |pmid=37064248 |pmc=10102909 }}</ref>
On 13 February 2022, Kulldorff tweeted in support of the [[Canada convoy protest]],<ref>{{Cite web |last=Butler |first=Kiera |date=February 15, 2022 |title=These doctors' groups are cheering on the anti-vax truckers |url=https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2022/02/ottawa-convoy-protest-promoters-elite-medical-credentials-financial-incentives-astroturf-libertarian/ |access-date=March 4, 2022 |website=[[Mother Jones (magazine)|Mother Jones]] |language=en-US}}</ref> which was organized to protest against vaccine mandates and other government restrictions regarding COVID-19.<ref>{{Cite web |last1=Woods |first1=Michael |last2=Pringle |first2=Josh |date=January 27, 2022 |title=Truck convoy rolls into Kingston, Ont. |url=https://ottawa.ctvnews.ca/truck-convoy-rolls-into-kingston-ont-1.5756220 |access-date=March 5, 2022 |website=CTV News Ottawa |language=en}}</ref> In December 2022, Florida Gov. DeSantis named Kulldorff, Bhattacharya, and several other opponents of the scientific consensus on COVID-19 vaccines to his newly formed Public Health Integrity Committee to "offer critical assessments" of recommendations from federal health agencies.<ref>{{Cite web |last=Catherman |first=Caroline |date=2022-12-13 |title=DeSantis announces grand jury to investigate 'wrongdoing' around COVID-19 vaccines |url=https://www.orlandosentinel.com/coronavirus/os-ne-coronavirus-desantis-grand-jury-covid-vaccines-ladapo-research-20221213-owp55jm45bayzmpwvp3wel6f6y-story.html |access-date=2022-12-13 |website=[[Orlando Sentinel]] |language=en-US}}</ref>
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