COVID Lockdowns Were a Giant Experiment. It Was a Failure. A key lesson of the pandemic.

Nymag ^ | 10/30/2023 | Bethany McLean and Joe Nocera

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and a half months during which no one was allowed to leave this industrial city of 11 million people, or even leave their homes. Until the Chinese government deployed this tactic, a strict batten-down-the-hatches approach had never been used before to combat a pandemic. Yes, for centuries infected people had been quarantined in their homes, where they would either recover or die. But that was very different from locking down an entire city; the World Health Organization called it “unprecedented in public health history.”

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It was a test run