Lockdowns do not harm health more than Covid, say researchers

Posted by on July 20, 2021 2:00 am
Tags:
Categories: Global Stories

Little evidence that social restrictions during the pandemic have added to rates of death and ill-health

Since early in the coronavirus pandemic, critics of unprecedented lockdown measures seen worldwide have argued that these interventions cause more harm than the disease itself. But an analysis of global health data suggests there is little evidence to support the idea that the cure is worse than the disease.

The analysis, published in the journal BMJ Global Health, considered claims that lockdowns cause more health harms than Covid-19 by examining their impacts on measures including death rates, routine health services and mental health.

Continue reading…

Leave a Reply

Your email address will not be published.