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Sucharit Bhakdi (born Sucharit Punyaratabandhu, 1 November 1946, in Washington, D.C.) is a retired Thai-German microbiologist, known for spreading misinformation about the 2020 COVID-19 pandemic. He studied at the Universities of Bonn, Gießen, Mainz and Copenhagen, and at the Max Planck Institute of Immunobiology and Epigenetics in Freiburg. He was professor of Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz and from 1991 to 2012 was head of the Institute of Medical Microbiology and Hygiene there.

Over his career, Bhakdi has produced scientific work in fields such as bacteriology and atherosclerosis, and has published multiple scientific articles in these areas. Awards he has received include the Order of Merit of Rhineland-Palatinate.

During the 2020 COVID-19 pandemic, Bhakdi started a Youtube channel proposing that the number of deaths stemming from SARS-CoV-2 infection had been overstated. Writing for Foreign Policy, Tyson Barker described Bhakdi as a prominent example from a "crop of debunked but credentialed so-called experts minting conspiracy theories and undermining fact-based information". The German non-profit Correctiv fact-checked one of Bhakdi's Youtube videos, and found a number of problematic claims, including the claim that any COVID-19 vaccine would be "pointless", and that the virus posed no more threat than influenza.

Awards

• 1991 Gay-Lussac Humboldt Prize
• 2001 Aronson Prize for „wegweisende Arbeiten auf dem Gebiet des Komplementsystems und bakterieller Toxine“ (tr. "pioneering work in the field of the complement system and bacterial toxins")
• 2005 H. W. Hauss Award
• 2005 Verdienstorden des Landes Rheinland-Pfalz
• 2009 Rudolf-Schönheimer Medal of the Deutschen Gesellschaft für Arterioskleroseforschung

References

1. ^ Tyson Barker (2 September 2020). "Germany Is Losing the Fight Against QAnon". Foreign Policy.
2. Muriel Kalisch; Patrick Stotz (21 May 2020). "Hinter der Verschwörung". Der Spiegel (in German).
3. "Sucharit Bhakdi (Punyarataband) Lebenslauf" [curriculum vitae]. studylibde.com. Retrieved 11 October 2020.
4. ^ "Sucharit Bhakdi MD". chelsea green. Retrieved 19 November 2020.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: url-status (link)
5. Kathrin Wesolowski (19 June 2020). "Impfung gegen Covid-19 "sinnlos"? Sucharit Bhakdi stellt unbelegte Behauptungen auf". Correctiv (Fact check) (in German).
6. Liste der Preisträger des Gay-Lussac-Humboldt-Preis (PDF; 82 kB)
7. "Mainzer Universitätsprofessor Sucharit Bhakdi wird mit dem Aronson-Preis 2001 ausgezeichnet" [Mainz university professor Sucharit Bhakdi is awarded the Aronson Prize 2001]. www.uni-protokolle.de.
8. Petra Giegerich (29 November 2002). "Mainzer Universitätsprofessor Sucharit Bhakdi wird mit dem Aronson-Preis 2001 ausgezeichnet" (in German).
9. "Sucharit Bhakdi, M.D." Universität Mainz. Archived from the original on 4 March 2016. Retrieved 15 October 2014.
10. Johannes Gutenberg-Universität Mainz (20 April 2009). "Mainzer Mediziner Bhakdi für Hypothese zur Entstehung von Atherosklerose ausgezeichnet" [Mainz physician Bhakdi honored for hypothesis on the development of atherosclerosis]. Retrieved 16 April 2018.
11. Deutsches Ärzteblatt. Namen und Nachrichten [Names and messages]. Retrieved 16 April 2018.

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