Our paper 1 studies the impact of lockdowns in Australia on short-term mortality. Our study
finds that, compared with the period 2015–2019, the standardised mortality rate in 2020 …

PROBLEM 1: ASKING THE WRONG QUESTION Estimating short-term excess mortality
effects cannot tell us whether lockdowns were a good idea. The conventional approach to …

During 2020 and 2021, Australia implemented relatively stringent government restrictions
yet had few COVID-19 deaths. This provides an opportunity to understand the effects of …

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The claims often include the idea that the benefits of lockdowns on infection control may be
outweighed by the negative impacts on the economy, social structure, education and mental …

We compare the trajectory of deaths (both in hospitals and care homes) on a daily basis in
Sweden and England and Wales (which constitute 90 per cent of the UK population) from 11 …

Woolhouse 13 dropping measures that have limited public benefit, such as banning outdoor
activities12 or closing schools. 13 Though this was understood by epidemiologists from very …

The Level 4 lockdown imposed on March 25 2020 in New Zealand was the world's most
restrictive set of closure and containment policies at the time. While designed to deal with …

Introduction The COVID‐19 pandemic has transformed lives across the world. In the UK, a
public health driven policy of population “lockdown” has had enormous personal and …

Was lockdown necessary? Page 1 Was lockdown necessary? Two years on from the UK's first
covid lockdown, Kit Yates looks at whether it could have been avoided Kit Yates senior lecturer …