Research Suggests Lockdowns Didn’t Reduce COVID Deaths

Multiple studies find lack of evidence that lockdowns had meaningful impact on pandemic

Lockdowns have been a difficult reality for billions of people and researchers now say the human cost may have been too high to justify. Luca Lorenzelli/Shutterstock

A review of data from 87 regions worldwide found that in about 98 percent of the comparisons, there was no evidence that lockdowns reduced the number of COVID-19 deaths.

The locking down of healthy people in their homes in order to prevent the spread of disease is an unprecedented public health move that has had devastating effects on the economy and has set a dangerous precedent for freedom and human rights.