Lockdowns
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There is no history to prove or disprove whether the use of lockdowns will control a virus so we must rely on data and events happening in real-time. The following is list of studies and articles on the effectiveness of the use of lockdowns and their relationship to virus control.
- Sweden’s health agency says open schools did not spur pandemic spread among children
Was Germany’s Corona Lockdown Necessary? - A country level analysis measuring the impact of government actions, country preparedness and socioeconomic factors on COVID-19 mortality and related health outcomes
- Did COVID-19 infections decline before UK lockdown?
- Comment on Flaxman et al. (2020): The illusory effects of non-pharmaceutical interventions on COVID-19 in Europe
- Lockdown Added Little or Nothing
- Impact of non-pharmaceutical interventions against COVID-19 in Europe: a quasi-experimental study
- Full lockdown policies in Western Europe countries have no evident impacts on the COVID-19 epidemic
- Trajectory of COVID-19 epidemic in Europe
- Effect of school closures on mortality from coronavirus disease 2019: old and new predictions
- Modeling social distancing strategies to prevent SARS-CoV2 spread in Israel- A Cost-effectiveness analysis
- Too Little of a Good Thing A Paradox of Moderate Infection Control
- Smart Thinking, Lockdown and COVID-19: Implications for Public Policy
- SARS-CoV-2 waves in Europe: A 2-stratum SEIRS model solution
- Did Lockdown Work? An Economist’s Cross-Country Comparison
- Four Stylized Facts about COVID-19
- Covid-19: How does Belarus have one of the lowest death rates in Europe?
- Association between living with children and outcomes from COVID-19: an Open SAFELY cohort study of 12 million adults in England
- Exploring inter-country coronavirus mortality
- Covid-19 Mortality: A Matter of Vulnerability Among Nations Facing Limited Margins of Adaptation
- States with the Fewest Coronavirus Restrictions
- The Mystery of Taiwan
- Predicting the Trajectory of Any COVID19 Epidemic From the Best Straight Line
- Government mandated lockdowns do not reduce Covid-19 deaths: implications for evaluating the stringent New Zealand response
- Lockdowns and Closures vs COVID-19: COVID Wins
- Effects of non-pharmaceutical interventions on COVID-19: A Tale of Three Models
- Assessing Mandatory Stay�?at�?Home and Business Closure Effects on the Spread of COVID�?19
- Lockdown Effects on Sars-CoV-2 Transmission – The evidence from Northern Jutland
- Model used to evaluate lockdowns was flawed