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More Than 400 Studies on the Failure of Compulsory Covid Interventions

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More Than 400 Studies on the Failure of Compulsory Covid Interventions
A guard wears a protective suit as he watches over a barricaded community that was locked down for health monitoring after recent cases of COVID-19 were found in the area on March 21, 2022 in Beijing, China. Photo by Kevin Frayer/Getty Images
Paul E. Alexander
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The great body of evidence shows that COVID-19 lockdowns, shelter-in-place policies, masks, school closures, and mask mandates have failed in their purpose of curbing transmission or reducing deaths. These restrictive policies were ineffective and devastating failures, causing immense harm especially to the poorer and vulnerable within societies.

Nearly all governments have attempted compulsory measures to control the virus, but no government can claim success. The research indicates that mask mandates, lockdowns, and school closures have had no discernible impact of virus trajectories.

Paul E. Alexander
Paul E. Alexander
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Dr. Paul Elias Alexander is a COVID-19 consultant researcher in the US-C19 research group. He was formerly an assistant professor at McMaster University in evidence-based medicine and research methods; a COVID pandemic evidence-synthesis consultant-adviser to WHO-PAHO Washington; and senior adviser on COVID pandemic policy at Health and Human Services. He was appointed in 2008 at WHO as a regional specialist/epidemiologist in Europe's regional office in Denmark, worked for the government of Canada as an epidemiologist for 12 years, was appointed as the Canadian in-field epidemiologist (2002–2004), and worked from 2017 to 2019 at Infectious Diseases Society of America as the evidence synthesis meta-analysis systematic review guideline development trainer. Dr. Alexander holds masters level study from York University Canada, and a masters in epidemiology from the University of Toronto, a masters in evidence-based medicine from the University of Oxford, and a doctorate in evidence-based medicine and research methods from McMaster University in Canada.
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