[Crimson Dynamo]

Lockdowns, school closures and limiting gatherings only reduced COVID
mortality by 0.2% at 'enormous economic and social costs', study finds

• Meta-analysis of 24 studies found Covid lockdown restrictions caused just 0.2% reduction in virus deaths
• Economists who carried out review said border closures had virtually zero effect on Covid mortality (-0.1%)
• However, researchers found closing nonessential shops was most effective intervention, causing 10.6% fall

The original coronavirus lockdowns had 'little to no' effect on pandemic death
tolls in the US, UK and Europe

Economists who carried out a meta-analysis estimated that draconian
restrictions first imposed in spring 2020 — including stay-at-home orders,
compulsory masks and social distancing — only reduced Covid mortality by
0.2 per cent.

They warned that lockdowns caused 'enormous economic and social costs'
and concluded they were 'ill-founded and should be rejected as a pandemic
policy instrument' going forward.

The review, led by a Johns Hopkins University professor, argued that border
closures had virtually zero effect on Covid mortality, reducing deaths by just
0.1 per cent.



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