Angelo State University: ASU to host guest presentation on COVID-19 pandemic aftermath

SAN ANGELO, Texas ( Concho Valley Homepage ) - Dr. Martin Kulldorff, an epidemiologist and founding editor-in-chief of the Journal of the Academy of Public Health, will give a guest presentation at Angelo State University regarding "the lasting effects of the COVID-19 pandemic," according to ASU. The presentation will take place beginning at 5:30 p.m. on Thursday, March 27. It will be held in the Carr Education-Fine Arts Building's Eldon Black Recital Hall, located at 2602 Dena Drive. The event is free and open to the public. It is sponsored by the Texas Tech University Free Market Institute at Angelo State University. ASU stated that the presentation, titled "Five Years Since 'Two Weeks to Flatten the Curve': Reflections on the COVID-19 Pandemic," will see Kulldorff "discuss how due to school closures, lockdowns, masking and vaccine mandates, evidence-based medicine and basic principles of public health were thrown out the window during the pandemic, while alternative views were censored." ASU to host lecture on West Texas legend The university said Kulldorff "will also present his views on how this caused both short- and long-term collateral public health damage that we must now live with, and die with, as well as how it has also generated distrust in the areas of medicine and academia, as it should, with less public support for scientific research." "While he says the mess was created by a small group of scientists in medical leadership positions, Kulldorff will argue that it falls on all of us, including rank-and-file academics in every field, to restore academic freedom and the integrity of the scientific enterprise," ASU said. Also a biostatistician and a founding fellow at Hillsdale College's Academy for Science and Freedom, Kulldorff is a member of the U.S. Food and Drug Administration's Drug Safety and Risk Management Advisory Committee. He is also a former member of the Vaccine Safety Subgroup of the Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Previously a professor of medicine at Harvard University for 13 years, Kulldorff has also worked at Uppsala University in Sweden and the National Institutes for Health. He is a co-author of the "Great Barrington Declaration," which ASU said advocates "for a pandemic strategy of focused protection rather than lockdowns." Kulldorff earned his doctorate in operations research at Cornell University. Copyright 2025 Nexstar Media, Inc. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten, or redistributed. For the latest news, weather, sports, and streaming video, head to ConchoValleyHomepage.com.