- 03 Feb 2022 21:01
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https://www.bladenjournal.com/news/4...than-a-benefit
Information published on a study by researchers at the renowned Johns Hopkins University indicates global lockdowns have been much more detrimental to society than a benefit during the COVID-19 pandemic.
Researchers concluded they “are ill-founded and should be rejected as a pandemic policy instrument.”
The news came on a week when Bladen County’s positive test total, bolstered by the less virulent omicron variant, ended January with 11 fatalities and 2,684 positive tests recorded.
Since the pandemic began, the county has recorded 109 deaths and 8,780 positive tests — 134 positive tests just from Tuesday and Wednesday. In a report Wednesday from the Bladen County Health Department, the county had 14 people hospitalized and what it deemed 302 active cases. There have been 8,369 recoveries since the pandemic began.
Statewide on Wednesday, there were 4,725 hospitalized; and since the pandemic began, there have been 20,904 deaths and 2,442,891 positive tests.
The original strain of COVID-19 was being detected when the first peak month in the pandemic, January of last year, had 765 positive tests. The delta variant of COVID-19 was being detected when Bladen County recorded 964 positive tests in August. Omicron variant, the least virulent of these three strains, is now being detected.
The study out early this week was authored by Jonas Herby, special advisor at Center for Political Studies in Copenhagen, Denmark; Lars Jonung, professor emeritus in economics at Lund University, Sweden; and Steve H. Hanke, a professor of Applied Economics and the founder and co-director of The Johns Hopkins Institute for Applied Economics, Global Health, and the Study of Business Enterprise.
The researchers defined lockdowns as restriction on “peoples’ possibilities” that included “policies that limit internal movement, close schools and businesses, and ban international travel.” They further said, “To answer our question, we focused on studies that examine the actual impact of lockdowns on COVID-19 mortality rates based on registered cross-sectional mortality data and a counterfactual difference in-difference approach.”
The answer, in simplest terms, was “no.”
They wrote, “Lockdowns have had little to no effect on COVID-19 mortality. More specifically, stringency index studies find that lockdowns in Europe and the United States only reduced COVID-19 mortality by 0.2% on average.” Also, with regard to shelter in place orders, the study said they “were also ineffective, only reducing COVID-19 mortality by 2.9% on average,” further noting “Specific non-pharmaceutical intervention (NPI) studies also find no broad-based evidence of noticeable effects on COVID-19 mortality.”
I'm hearing and looking for it, and can't find it, our St. Johns Hospital here in Santa Monica reported this too.
Our city is so destroyed from all the lockdowns. So many stores have closed.
So much damage and destruction from our government.
Information published on a study by researchers at the renowned Johns Hopkins University indicates global lockdowns have been much more detrimental to society than a benefit during the COVID-19 pandemic.
Researchers concluded they “are ill-founded and should be rejected as a pandemic policy instrument.”
The news came on a week when Bladen County’s positive test total, bolstered by the less virulent omicron variant, ended January with 11 fatalities and 2,684 positive tests recorded.
Since the pandemic began, the county has recorded 109 deaths and 8,780 positive tests — 134 positive tests just from Tuesday and Wednesday. In a report Wednesday from the Bladen County Health Department, the county had 14 people hospitalized and what it deemed 302 active cases. There have been 8,369 recoveries since the pandemic began.
Statewide on Wednesday, there were 4,725 hospitalized; and since the pandemic began, there have been 20,904 deaths and 2,442,891 positive tests.
The original strain of COVID-19 was being detected when the first peak month in the pandemic, January of last year, had 765 positive tests. The delta variant of COVID-19 was being detected when Bladen County recorded 964 positive tests in August. Omicron variant, the least virulent of these three strains, is now being detected.
The study out early this week was authored by Jonas Herby, special advisor at Center for Political Studies in Copenhagen, Denmark; Lars Jonung, professor emeritus in economics at Lund University, Sweden; and Steve H. Hanke, a professor of Applied Economics and the founder and co-director of The Johns Hopkins Institute for Applied Economics, Global Health, and the Study of Business Enterprise.
The researchers defined lockdowns as restriction on “peoples’ possibilities” that included “policies that limit internal movement, close schools and businesses, and ban international travel.” They further said, “To answer our question, we focused on studies that examine the actual impact of lockdowns on COVID-19 mortality rates based on registered cross-sectional mortality data and a counterfactual difference in-difference approach.”
The answer, in simplest terms, was “no.”
They wrote, “Lockdowns have had little to no effect on COVID-19 mortality. More specifically, stringency index studies find that lockdowns in Europe and the United States only reduced COVID-19 mortality by 0.2% on average.” Also, with regard to shelter in place orders, the study said they “were also ineffective, only reducing COVID-19 mortality by 2.9% on average,” further noting “Specific non-pharmaceutical intervention (NPI) studies also find no broad-based evidence of noticeable effects on COVID-19 mortality.”
I'm hearing and looking for it, and can't find it, our St. Johns Hospital here in Santa Monica reported this too.
Our city is so destroyed from all the lockdowns. So many stores have closed.
So much damage and destruction from our government.
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