Further assessment of the impact of COVID-19 lockdowns must be conducted, said Rep. Greg Murphy (R-N.C.), a practicing physician, because initial data show that there were many unintended deaths from isolating people at home. “We know a lot more people have died in relation to what our actions were during the pandemic, than maybe perhaps even the pandemic itself,” Murphy told NTD’s “Capitol Report” on Feb. 4. Murphy, a transplant surgeon, said lockdowns prevented close to 9 million people from having cancer screenings and thousands of people from having chest pains checked out, “and then subsequently [they] had heart attacks and died at home.” He also said that keeping people from going to their houses of worship, schools, and family celebrations resulted in increased isolation and depression. “And so, it’s really taken away not only years of education, but years of socialization. You have seen subsequent results from that …  100,000 people died …