A few days ago, an international group of scientists called on governments to reverse their coronavirus strategies and allow young people and healthy people to return to normal life by protecting the most vulnerable. The proposal, drafted by three researchers but signed by many more, argued for allowing the virus to spread to low-risk groups in the hope of achieving "herd immunity", where the majority of the population is resistant to the virus. and thus the pandemic ends faster.

Described as the "Great Barrington Declaration," it was signed by more than 15,000 scientists and medical professionals. But recently, details about him were revealed by Sky News where numerous fake names were noticed, like Dr. Johnny Bananas. In the list of names, one of them is a resident of "your mom's university", while another is specialized in "Dale a tu cuerpo alegria Macarena".

Sky News revealed 18 self-proclaimed homeopaths (homeopathy - pseudoscientific system of alternative medicine) in the list of names of experts and more than 100 therapists whose expertise included massage, hypnotherapy and khoomii Mongolian singing.

Individual academics from the universities of Oxford, Cambridge, Harvard, Stanford, Nottingham, Edinburgh, Exeter, Sussex, etc., were among the experts from around the world who signed the declaration. However, the declaration website allows anyone to add their name to the list if it provides an email address, home city, zip code and name. It is not clear how many of the names in the list of statement experts are false.

Dr. Michael Head, a senior global health researcher at the University of Southampton, said the statement was "a very bad idea" and doubted that vulnerable people would be able to avoid the virus if it were allowed to spread. "Ultimately, the Barrington Declaration is based on principles that are dangerous to national and global public health," he said.

The statement has also been accused of ignoring growing new evidence regarding Covid-19, where thousands of able-bodied and young people who have been in contact with the virus have been left with mild symptoms months after a mild infection.

Sources: Sky News, Guardian