...from lockdowns, nothing else had any clear effect, which meant that lockdowns were responsible for the overwhelming majority of the 3 million lives that, according to this study, non-pharmaceutical interventions...
...separated, which is the exact opposite of European lockdowns. Here is a very good read on the arguments against lockdowns. In most European countries, cases were already falling before the...
...public health intervention, aiming to improve the population wellbeing, we must consider both benefits of lockdowns, and costs of lockdowns on the population wellbeing. Once I became more informed, I...
...principles should apply to NPIs and lockdowns, which should be based on rigorous science and subject to amendment as new empirical evidence emerges. Public health ethics Medicine is governed by...
...to be a spin piece hailing the unbounded success of the ‘safe and effective’ COVID-19 vaccines? Well, as it turns out, not quite. Let’s start with this quote from the...
Good grief. Will they never give up? A major new evidence review from the prestigious Royal Society has concluded that lockdowns, mask-wearing and other non-pharmaceutical interventions were “unequivocally” effective in...
...with Dan Wootton “‘Lockdowns don’t work’ Former Head of Diseases, Public Health Wales Dr Roland Salmon” – Anna Brees interviews Dr Roland Salmon, who has little time for lockdowns “The...
...which issued stay-at-home orders. If lockdowns are so effective, how do you explain that? Chris points out that infections began to decline after lockdowns were introduced in autumn/winter in various...
...including severe blanket societal restrictions such as lockdowns, aim to limit the spread of coronavirus by breaking chains of infection within the population. NPIs were deployed to help tackle the...
...the word ‘lockdown’ (and says anything about lockdowns) only once, and that in its epigraph (which is a quote from the GBD): Lockdowns are a very bad idea – they...
