NYU Professor Who Called for Harsh COVID Lockdowns Says ‘I Was Wrong’

Scott Galloway, a marketing professor at NYU’s Stern School of Business, made the remark on HBO’s ‘Real Time With Bill Maher.’

Registered nurse Rachel Chamberlin steps out of an isolation room where Fred Rutherford recovers from COVID-19 at the Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center, in Lebanon, N.H., on Jan. 3, 2022. Steven Senne/AP Photo

A New York University business school professor who pushed for harsh lockdown policies during the COVID-19 pandemic now admits he was wrong.

Scott Galloway, a marketing professor at NYU’s Stern School of Business, made the remark during a recent appearance on HBO’s “Real Time with Bill Maher.”