The Hopkins researchers speculated that the lockdown measures may have worsened the pandemic by forcing people to shelter in their homes where they were more likely to spread the virus.
A new study from Johns Hopkins University’s Institute for Applied Economics supports what I and others have long maintained: Lockdowns do not work, and their economic, social, educational and psychological costs far outweigh any health benefits they might bring.
Early in the pandemic, epidemiological modelers predicted catastrophic casualties that could be averted only with stringent lockdown measures. In response, nearly every country around the world imposed lockdown measures by the end of March 2020. Yet little evidence existed to support such actions, and the modeling studies were fatally flawed.
Now the Hopkins literature review and meta-analysis, by professors Jonas Herby, Lars Jonung and Steve Hanke, finds that lockdowns — “defined as the imposition of at least one compulsory, nonpharmaceutical intervention (NPI)” such as school and business closures and limitations on movement and travel — “had little to no effect on COVID-19 mortality.”
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Joel Zinberg, M.D., J.D., is a Senior Fellow at the Competitive Enterprise Institute and an Associate Clinical Professor of Surgery at the Icahn Mount Sinai School of Medicine. This piece was adapted from City Journal.
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