Journalists Wandering Eyes Posted July 1, 2020 Journalists Share Posted July 1, 2020 Take-down of the Flaxman et al. (2020) claim that interventions saved lives. The illusory effects of non-pharmaceutical interventions on COVID-19 in Europe Flaxman et al. (Nature, 8 June 2020, https://doi.org/10.1038/s41586-020-2405-7, 2020) infer that non-pharmaceutical interventions conducted by several European countries considerably reduced effective reproduction numbers and saved millions of lives. We show that their method is ill-conceived and that the alleged effects are artefacts. Moreover, we demonstrate that the United Kingdom’s lockdown was both superfluous and ineffective. https://advance.sagepub.com/articles/Comment_on_Flaxman_et_al_2020_The_illusory_effects_of_non-pharmaceutical_interventions_on_COVID-19_in_Europe/12479987 View the full article Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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