Researchers have concluded that lockdowns should be “rejected out of hand” to control future pandemics as they failed to significantly reduce deaths.
Experts from Johns Hopkins University and Lund University claim that measures taken to curb COVID-19 in the spring of 2020 failed to significantly reduce deaths while imposing severe economic and social costs.
The report published in the think tank Institute of Economic Affairs on Monday found that lockdowns prevented relatively few deaths compared to a typical flu season.
This means that lockdowns prevented around 1,700 deaths in England and Wales, approximately 6,000 deaths across Europe, and roughly 4,000 deaths in the United States….