Differences

This shows you the differences between two versions of the page.

--- jeffrey_sachs [2022/09/17 16:32]
pamela
+++ jeffrey_sachs [2022/09/19 17:10] (current)
pamela
@@ Line 11: / Line 11: @@
 Professor Sachs was the co-recipient of the 2015 Blue Planet Prize, the leading global prize for environmental leadership. He was twice named among Time magazine’s 100 most influential world leaders and has received 28 honorary degrees. The New York Times called Sachs “probably the most important economist in the world,” and Time magazine called Sachs “the world’s best-known economist.” A survey by The Economist ranked Sachs as among the three most influential living economists. ((https://web.archive.org/web/20201001203603/https://covid19commission.org/jeffrey-sachs))
-==== Lancet Covid-19 Commission ====
+==== 2003 Lancet Profile ====
+Jeffrey Sachs Interview by Faith McLellan
+Published:August 23, 2003
+DOI:https://doi.org/10.1016/S0140-6736(03)14181-5
+The man The New York Times calls “probably the most important economist in the world” is more or less between presentations when I met him at the Stanhope Hotel, across from New York's Metropolitan Museum of Art. Jeffrey D Sachs, Director of Columbia University's Earth Institute, and Professor of Sustainable Development and of Health Policy and Management, had recently helped his 9-year-old daughter give a talk, complete with Powerpoint, about Tibet, and he will leave here to speak about [[:AIDS]] at Manhattan's exclusive Brearley School for girls. These were rather comforting bits of domestic information about a man who is routinely consulted by the [[:United Nations]], the [[:White House]], and governments around the world. ((https://web.archive.org/web/20220917132223/https://www.thelancet.com/journals/lancet/article/PIIS0140-6736%2803%2914181-5/fulltext))
+==== Interview Robert F. Kennedy Jr. ====
+August 25, 2022 - The Defender Show
+‘The Defender Show’ Episode 64: The Origins of COVID-19 With Jeffrey Sachs
+((https://live.childrenshealthdefense.org/shows/the-defender-show/VIDcX7lZl9))
+==== Lancet Covid-19 Commission Report ====
+The [[:Lancet COVID-19 Commission]]
+Published: September 14, 2022
+Executive Summary
+{{ ::lancet_covid_19_commission_paper.png?600|}}
+The Lancet Commission on lessons for the future from the COVID-19 pandemic provides a comprehensive investigation, analysis, and response to COVID-19. The Commission delivers a number of recommendations that are divided into three main areas. First, practical steps to finally control and understand the COVID-19 pandemic. Second, realistic, feasible, and necessary investments to strengthen the first line of defence against emerging infectious agents in countries by strengthening health systems and widening universal health coverage. Third, ambitious proposals to ignite a renaissance in multilateralism, integrating the global response to the risk of future pandemics with actions to address the climate crisis and reversals in sustainable development.
+Executive summary
+As of May 31, 2022, there were 6·9 million reported deaths and 17·2 million estimated deaths from COVID-19, as reported by the Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation (IHME; throughout the report, we rely on IHME estimates of infections and deaths; note that the IHME gives an estimated range, and we refer to the mean estimate). This staggering death toll is both a profound tragedy and a massive global failure at multiple levels. Too many governments have failed to adhere to basic norms of institutional rationality and transparency, too many people—often influenced by misinformation—have disrespected and protested against basic public health precautions, and the world's major powers have failed to collaborate to control the pandemic.((https://web.archive.org/web/20220914235240/https://www.thelancet.com/journals/lancet/article/PIIS0140-6736(22)01585-9/fulltext))
+==== Public Reaction ====
+=== Washington Post ===
+(Insincere headline they make Sachs a conspiracy theorists & anto-vax adjacent & conclude more WHO power is needed )
+{{ ::lancet_c19_comm_finding_headline_blsts_gov_untrustineffective.png?400|}}
+‘Untrustworthy and ineffective’: Panel blasts governments’ covid response
+In long-awaited report, the Lancet Covid-19 Commission also revives disputed claims about virus’s origins
+By Dan Diamond - September 14, 2022
+The Lancet commission report carries no legal or regulatory authority. But its recommendations, which draw on more than two years of work from more than 170 experts, represent one of the highest-profile attempts to identify lessons from covid-19 and how to better prepare for the next pandemic. U.S. efforts to conduct a bipartisan review of the pandemic response have stalled in Congress, and other independent bids have also struggled to win funding or capture widespread attention.
+But the Lancet report also comes after Sachs, the panel’s chairman, publicly embraced the “lab-leak theory,” which posits that the virus may have escaped from a laboratory and could even have man-made origins, leading to backlash from scientists who warned that his advocacy for the disputed theory would cloud the panel’s work.
+Government officials such as Anthony S. Fauci “are not being honest” about the virus’s origins, Sachs claimed on an August podcast with [[:Robert F. Kennedy Jr.]], who has spread conspiracy theories about vaccines. Sachs also co-authored a May article in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences that argued U.S. scientists may have had a role in shaping SARS-CoV-2 and called for a probe of the pandemic’s origin through a “bipartisan congressional inquiry with full investigative powers.”((https://web.archive.org/web/20220915010444/https://www.washingtonpost.com/health/2022/09/14/lancet-covid-commission-report-who/))
-Task force chair Jeffrey Sachs, economics professor at Columbia University in New York, told the Wall Street Journal that he had shut down the scientist led investigation into how the COVID-19 pandemic started.
 === BMJ - Childrens Health Defense ===
@@ Line 208: / Line 253: @@
 And so I told him, “Look, you have to leave.” And then the other scientists in that task force attacked me for being anti-scientific. And I asked them: “What are your connections with all of this?” They didn’t tell me. Then when the [[:Freedom of Information Act]] (FOIA) released some of these documents that NIH had been hiding from the public, I saw that people that were attacking me were also part of this thing. So I disbanded that whole task force. So my own experience was to witness close up how they’re not talking. And they’re trying to keep our eyes on something else. And away from even asking the questions that we’re talking about. We don’t have the answers. But we have good reasons to ask. And we have good reasons to know that NIH is not doing its job properly right now.((https://web.archive.org/web/20220917134541/https://www.theinsider1.com/post/jeffrey-sachs-what-is-washington-hiding-about-covids-origin))
-=== Washington Post ===
+=== Current Affairs ===
+{{ ::current_affairs_sachs_quote.png?400|}}
+Why the Chair of the Lancet’s COVID-19 Commission Thinks The US Government Is Preventing a Real Investigation Into the Pandemic
-‘Untrustworthy and ineffective’: Panel blasts governments’ covid response
+Prof. Jeffrey Sachs says he is “pretty convinced [COVID-19] came out of US lab biotechnology” and warns that there is dangerous virus research taking place without public oversight.
-In long-awaited report, the Lancet Covid-19 Commission also revives disputed claims about virus’s origins
-A global panel of experts Wednesday blamed the World Health Organization, the U.S. government and others for serious failures in coordinating an international response to covid-19, while laying out recommendations to protect against future pandemics and reviving disputed claims about the virus’s origins.
+filed 02 August 2022 in The Virus by Nathan Robinson
-In a 45-page editorial, the Lancet Covid-19 Commission warned that many governments proved “untrustworthy and ineffective” as the pandemic tore across the world, citing examples such as richer nations hoarding vaccine doses and failing to fund global response efforts, and politicians such as former U.S. president Donald Trump and Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro playing down the virus’s risks, even as hundreds of thousands of their citizens died of it.
+Prof. Sachs recently co-authored a paper in the Proceedings of the [[:National Academy of Sciences]] calling for an independent inquiry into the virus’s origins. He believes that there is clear proof that the [[:National Institutes of Health]] and many members of the scientific community have been impeding a serious investigation of the origins of [[:COVID-19]] and deflecting attention away from the hypothesis that risky U.S.-supported research may have led to millions of deaths.
-“What we saw — rather than a cooperative global strategy — was basically each country on its own,” Jeffrey Sachs, a Columbia University economist who chaired the commission, told reporters in a briefing convened by the respected medical journal. “National leaders deciding … the strategy and the fates of their countries in an incredibly haphazard way.”
+If that hypothesis is true, the implications would be earth-shaking, because it might mean that esteemed members of the scientific community bore responsibility for a global calamity. In this interview, Prof. Sachs explains how he, as the head of the COVID-19 commission for a leading medical journal, came to the conclusion that powerful actors were preventing a real investigation from taking place. He also explains why it is so important to get to the bottom of the origins of COVID: because, he says, there is extremely dangerous research taking place with little accountability, and the public has a right to know since we are the ones whose lives are being put at risk without our consent.
+Nathan Robinson: I want to quote something that you said recently:
-But the Lancet report also comes after Sachs, the panel’s chairman, publicly embraced the “lab-leak theory,” which posits that the virus may have escaped from a laboratory and could even have man-made origins, leading to backlash from scientists who warned that his advocacy for the disputed theory would cloud the panel’s work.
+“I chaired the commission for the Lancet for two years on COVID. I’m pretty convinced it came out of U.S. lab biotechnology, not out of nature, just to mention. After two years of intensive work on this. So it’s a blunder in my view of biotech, not an accident of a natural spillover. We don’t know for sure, I should be absolutely clear. But there’s enough evidence that it should be looked into. And it’s not being investigated, not in the United States, not anywhere. And I think for real reasons that they don’t want to look underneath the rug, the statement.”
-Government officials such as Anthony S. Fauci “are not being honest” about the virus’s origins, Sachs claimed on an August podcast ((https://live.childrenshealthdefense.org/shows/the-defender-show/VIDcX7lZl9)) with [[:Robert F. Kennedy Jr.]], who has spread conspiracy theories about vaccines. Sachs also co-authored a May article in the Proceedings of the [[:National Academy of Sciences]] that argued U.S. scientists may have had a role in shaping SARS-CoV-2 and called for a probe of the pandemic’s origin through a “bipartisan congressional inquiry with full investigative powers.”
+The statement that you made there is a controversial one. Just to read a couple of quotes from the New York Times in the last year
+((https://web.archive.org/web/20220909194915/https://www.currentaffairs.org/2022/08/why-the-chair-of-the-lancets-covid-19-commission-thinks-the-us-government-is-preventing-a-real-investigation-into-the-pandemic))
-Sachs’ advocacy provoked a private, year-long fight with other commission members who say there is far more evidence that the virus has a “natural origin” and was first transmitted to humans from an animal, and who worked to reach a compromise over what the final report would say.
-“Along with a couple of other commissioners, I helped lead efforts to keep the conspiracy nonsense and the whacka-doodle out of the final report,” said [[:Peter Hotez]], a virologist at the [[:Baylor College of Medicine]] and a panel member. “I will be disappointed if covid origin conspiracies wind up detracting from some of the important and legitimate deficiencies in our understandings of how SARS, MERS and covid emerged.”
-((https://www.washingtonpost.com/health/2022/09/14/lancet-covid-commission-report-who/))
-==== Interview Robert F. Kennedy Jr. ====
-August 25, 2022 - The Defender Show
-‘The Defender Show’ Episode 64: The Origins of COVID-19 With Jeffrey Sachs
-((https://live.childrenshealthdefense.org/shows/the-defender-show/VIDcX7lZl9))