Posted on 01/22/2021 11:35:32 PM PST by nickcarraway
A Stanford study comparing Covid responses in different countries found “no clear significant beneficial effect” from stay-at-home orders and business closures.
The peer-reviewed study, published Jan. 5 in the European Journal of Clinical Investigation, found that lockdown orders early in the Covid pandemic didn’t provide more benefits than other measures such as social distancing and travel reduction.
The study investigated measures by England, France, Germany, Iran, Italy, Netherlands, Spain, the U.S., South Korea and Sweden.
The first eight countries imposed stay-at-home orders on residents while South Korea and Sweden took less restrictive steps.
The researchers used a mathematical model to compare the countries.
They found “no clear, significant beneficial effect of (more restrictive measures) on case growth in any country.”
“We do not question the role of all public health interventions, or of coordinated communications about the epidemic, but we fail to find an additional benefit of stay-at-home orders and business closures,” the researchers said in a statement.
The study was co-authored by Jay Bhattacharya, a Stanford professor of medicine and economics who has been a vocal opponent of Covid lockdowns since March.
He was also among a group of scientists who wrote “The Great Barrington Declaration,” a document that encouraged governments to lift lockdown restrictions to achieve herd immunity among young and healthy people, while focusing protections on the elderly.
Other studies have oppositely determined that lockdown orders have saved lives.
For instance, a Imperial College London study published in the journal Nature found that some 3.1 million deaths had been averted due to lockdowns across Europe early on in the pandemic. “This data suggests that without any interventions, such as lockdown and school closures, there could have been many more deaths from Covid-19,” said Dr. Samir Bhatt, an author of Imperial College London study.
Lockdowns & masks are important for politicians so they can point at them and say “Look at what we are doing to save you from the invisible monster!”...
“The whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace alarmed - and hence clamorous to be led to safety - by menacing it with an endless series of hobgoblins, all of them imaginary.” - H. L. Mencken
Will fascist Fauci and Bimentia follow the science? What utter Joek’s they both are.
The flip side of this observation is also true; social distancing, masks, and travel reduction don't provide benefits. Idiots!
This will be filed right next to the study from Berkeley declaring Water is Wet
I don’t understand any of this . Nearly all who supposedly died from this are over 80
Looks like maybe we have been feed a bunch of bs
So how many cases have there accrual been....
Um...little good a post about a study does without a link to the study.
I fault the author of the linked story, primarily.
ASSESSING MANDATORY STAY-AT-HOME AND BUSINESS CLOSURE EFFECTS ON THE SPREAD OF COVID-19
Eran Bendavid1,2, Christopher Oh1, Jay Bhattacharya2, John P.A. Ioannidis1,3,4,5,6
https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/eci.13484
One year ago today:
After the Chinese city of Wuhan halted outbound flights, trains, buses and ferries in an effort to stop the spread of a deadly new virus, 12 other cities in the province followed suit, bringing more than 36 million people under lockdown.
After the Chinese city of Wuhan halted outbound flights, trains, buses and ferries in an effort to stop the spread of a deadly new virus, 12 other cities in the province followed suit, bringing more than 36 million people under lockdown. Health officials in Chicago said a woman in her 60s had become the second U.S. patient diagnosed with the new virus; she’d returned from China in mid-January.
https://abcnews.go.com/US/wireStory/today-history-75453369
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