and probably closer to one in ten thousand." Both before and after this statement, the estimates of other experts have fallen in a range much higher than this. Gupta has been a critic of lockdowns in the pandemic. She was one of the primary authors of the Great Barrington Declaration in 2020, which advocated lifting COVID-19 restrictions on lower-risk groups to develop herd immunity through infection, while stating that vulnerable people should be protected from the virus. The World Health Organization, as well as other numerous academic and public-health bodies, stated that the strategy proposed by the declaration is dangerous, unethical, and lacks a sound scientific basis. The American Public Health Association and 13 other public-health groups in the United States said in a joint open letter that the Great Barrington Declaration "is not a strategy, it is a political statement" and said it was "selling false hope that will predictably backfire". In 2021, she was an author at the Brownstone Institute, a new think tank founded by Jeffrey Tucker where senior roles were held by Martin Kulldorff and Jay Bhattacharya, her co-authors on the Great Barrington Declaration. Works of fiction Gupta wrote her first works of fiction in Bengali. She was a translator of the poetry of Rabindranath Tagore. She has published several novels in English. In October 2012 her fifth novel, So Good in Black, was longlisted for the DSC Prize for South Asian Literature. Her novels have been awarded the Sahitya Akademi Award, the Southern Arts Literature Prize, shortlisted for the Crossword Award, and longlisted for the Orange Prize. Personal life Gupta was married to the Irish vaccinologist Adrian V. S. Hill from 1994 to 2020. They have two daughters. Gupta has dismissed claims of having a right-wing perspective, claiming to be "more Left than Labour". Selected works Journal articles Novels Memories of Rain (1992) The Glassblower's Breath (1993) Moonlight into Marzipan (1995) A Sin of Colour (1999) So Good in Black (2009) References External links Profile on the Website of the Oxford Department of Zoology Sunetra Gupta at AcademiaNet 1965 births Living people Princeton University alumni Alumni of Imperial College London Fellows of Merton College, Oxford Indian emigrants to England Recipients of the Sahitya Akademi Award in English Indian medical researchers 20th-century Indian translators Indian women science writers Indian social sciences writers Indian epidemiologists Women evolutionary biologists Bengali chemists Scientists from Kolkata 21st-century Indian women scientists