Lockdown measures imposed in March 2020 had a ‘negligible impact’ on the number of deaths from COVID-19, according to a landmark study by researchers at John Hopkins University and Lund University in Sweden.
According to the research, which analyzed some 19,646 studies, Britain’s national lockdown measures prevented as few as 1,700 deaths in England and Wales. Notably, the number of weekly deaths in England and Wales is around 11,000. The study infers that European countries which embraced lockdown had just 6,000 fewer deaths than those that did not, while “the US could have seen 4,000 fewer deaths.”
Indeed, the researchers argue that the COVID-19 lockdowns were “a global policy failure of gigantic proportions” as the “draconian policy failed to significantly reduce deaths while imposing substantial social, cultural, and economic costs.”
“The science of lockdowns is clear; the data are in: the deaths saved were a drop in the bucket compared to the staggering collateral costs imposed,” the authors of the study concluded.
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