The Covid-19 lockdown is credited with saving countless people from infection and death, but it’s come at a great cost, and with the toll only mounting a group of public health experts recently took a very public stand to make the case that the lockdown should be ended.

On this edition of KCBS In Depth we speak to one of the authors of the Great Barrington Declaration, calling for a complete overhaul of our approach to this pandemic. Then we also hear from one the declaration's many critics, who warns the plan it proposes would lead to the very surge in Covid-19 deaths that we've been trying to avoid since the pandemic began. 

Guests: 

• Dr. Jay Bhattacharya, professor of medicine, Stanford University; one of three co-authors for the Great Barrington Declaration 
• Dr. John Swartzberg, emeritus professor of public health at UC, Berkeley’s Division of Infectious Disease

Host: Keith Menconi