Why Lockdowns?
Posted: Fri Jan 15, 2021 9:47 pm
Stanford says lockdowns do not work
https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epd ... /eci.13484
While this study casts doubt on any firm conclusions about the effectiveness of restrictive NPIs, it also underscores the importance of more definitive evaluations of NPI effects. NPIs can also have harms, besides any questionable benefits, and the harms may be more prominent for some NPIs than for others. For example, school closures may have very serious harms, estimated at an equivalent of 5.5 million life years for children in the US during the spring school closures alone.37 Considerations of harms should play a prominent role in policy decisions, especially if an NPI is ineffective at reducing the spread of infections. Of note, Sweden did not close primary schools throughout 2020 as of this writing.