Idea for Pandemic Lockdowns Started With High School Science Project

The majority of governors in the United States have ordered or recommended that statewide school closures continue for the rest of the academic year to help reduce the spread of the novel coronavirus. CNN

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By now, millions of Americans have heard that a flawed computer model helped spur governments to order population-wide lockdowns in response to the coronavirus—a model that assumed such lockdowns would help. Few, however, know the pedigree for this untested belief.