{"id":1266402,"date":"2022-02-02T16:24:16","date_gmt":"2022-02-02T21:24:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1266402"},"modified":"2022-02-02T16:24:25","modified_gmt":"2022-02-02T21:24:25","slug":"johns-hopkins-study-finds-covid-lockdowns-ineffective-at-saving-lives","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/johns-hopkins-study-finds-covid-lockdowns-ineffective-at-saving-lives\/","title":{"rendered":"Johns Hopkins Study Finds COVID Lockdowns Ineffective at Saving Lives"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">20<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fjohns-hopkins-study-finds-covid-lockdowns-ineffective-at-saving-lives%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1266402&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/GettyImages-1214099921.jpg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" alt=\"image\" \/><\/div>\n<p>A study from researchers at Johns Hopkins University found that lockdowns have had &#8220;little to no effect on COVID-19 mortality.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The researchers conducted a <a href=\"https:\/\/sites.krieger.jhu.edu\/iae\/files\/2022\/01\/A-Literature-Review-and-Meta-Analysis-of-the-Effects-of-Lockdowns-on-COVID-19-Mortality.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">meta-analysis<\/a> of 24 studies examining government mandates that restrict people&#8217;s freedoms, including school and business closures, stay-at-home orders, travel bans, and face mask requirements. The results of the meta-analysis indicated that lockdowns in the United States and Europe have reduced deaths from COVID-19 by just 0.2 percent.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We find little to no evidence that mandated lockdowns in Europe and the United States had a noticeable effect on COVID-19 mortality rates,&#8221; the authors of the study wrote.<\/p>\n<p>An analysis of studies that focused just on stay-at-home orders found they were 2.9 percent effective at reducing mortality. Studies that gathered data on a broad number of government-imposed pandemic measures actually indicated that stay-at-home orders marginally increased COVID deaths.<\/p>\n<p>The authors found no evidence of a noticeable effect on COVID mortality from any specific lockdown measure except for business closures, though &#8220;the variation in estimates is large and the effect seems related to closing bars,&#8221; the authors wrote. They found mask mandates may reduce mortality but declined to form a conclusion on their effectiveness because their meta-analysis looked at only one study that examines universal mask mandates.<\/p>\n<p>The authors concluded that governments should abandon lockdown measures because of their negligible impact on mortality and the real societal damage they cause.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;While this meta-analysis concludes that lockdowns have had little to no public health effects, they have imposed enormous economic and social costs where they have been adopted,&#8221; the researchers wrote. &#8220;In consequence, lockdown policies are ill-founded and should be rejected as a pandemic policy instrument.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The study was published by Johns Hopkins&#8217;s Institute for Applied Economics, Global Health, and the Study of Business Enterprise. One of the study&#8217;s authors, economics professor Steve Hanke, is a codirector of the institute.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A study from researchers at Johns Hopkins University found that lockdowns have had &#8220;little to no effect on COVID-19 mortality.&#8221; The researchers conducted a meta-analysis of 24 studies examining government &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2315279,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1266402","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1266402","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1266402"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1266402\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2315279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1266402"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1266402"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1266402"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}