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COLLINS: “This was an effort to take a very fast track of something which would have potentially been a major change in national policy without the opportunity for any debate or discussion. As somebody who is deeply engaged in the federal effort to try to save lives, I saw this and I was deeply troubled. I regret that I used some terminology that I probably shouldn’t, that somebody should put forward a devastating takedown of the dangers here, and I regret that. But I was deeply worried. And in a few days, no less than 14 of the public health associations of the United States all together wrote a scathing takedown of the Great Barrington Declaration, saying this would probably kill tens of thousands of people. And so, ultimately, that was the scientific discussion, but the effort was made by the authors and some help from Dr. Atlas to try to short circuit all that and get that into a policy decision without the opportunity for debate. So I don’t regret saying this is dangerous, it was.”