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MASSIVE JOHNS HOPKINS STUDY: LOCKDOWNS, MASKS, CLOSURES DID NOT REDUCE DEATH

'STRONGLY' REJECTS GOVERNMENT MEASURES AS 'PANDEMIC POLICY INSTRUMENT'

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Published January 31, 2022 at 7:04pm
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Researchers at Johns Hopkins University conducted a systematic review and
meta-analysis of thousands of studies to determine whether or not there is
empirical evidence to support the belief that "lockdowns" reduce COVID-19
mortality.

They concluded that such policies are "ill-founded" and should be "rejected."

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"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," the researchers wrote in the abstract. "In consequence,
lockdown policies are ill-founded and should be rejected as a pandemic policy
instrument."

The meta-analysis, titled "A Literature Review and Meta-Analysis of the Effects
of Lockdowns on COVID-19 Mortality," began by identifying 18,590 studies that
potentially could support the belief that lockdowns reduce COVID-19 mortality.

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"After three levels of screening, 34 studies ultimately qualified. Of those 34
eligible studies, 24 qualified for inclusion in the meta-analysis," the
researchers wrote.

They then divided the studies into three groups, lockdown stringency index
studies, shelter-in-place-order studies and specific non-pharmaceutical
intervention studies.

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They defined "lockdowns" as "the imposition of at least one compulsory,
non-pharmaceutical intervention," meaning government policies restricting
people's regular activities, such as limiting movement, closing schools and
businesses, and banning international travel.

They found lockdowns in Europe and the United States reduced COVID mortality by
only 0.2% on average and shelter-in-place orders by an average of 2.9%. There
was no "broad-based evidence" showing non-pharmaceutical interventions had any
noticeable effect on COVID mortality.

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The conclusions by the Johns Hopkins researchers are consistent with other
studies of hard data from around the world showing the lockdowns and other
severe mitigation measures didn't stop the typical waxing and waning of a
respiratory virus pandemic.

And the unintended consequences have been documented by the World Health
Organization and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

As WND reported in December, the CDC warned that measles has become a growing
global threat because of disruptions to childhood vaccinations caused by the
lockdowns.

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The WHO, in its latest malaria report, said in December that amid "disruptions"
to health services during the COVID-19 pandemic, malaria cases and deaths rose
significantly in 2020 compared to the previous year.

Stanford Medical School professor Dr. Jay Bhattacharya, who has spotlighted the
unintended consequences of COVID lockdowns, commented on the WHO report in
December.

"The lockdowners who championed the policies that caused the sharp increase in
malaria deaths in 2020 will do their best to ignore this because they are blind
to collateral harms from the lockdowns, especially if they befall the poor
worldwide," he said on Twitter.

Bhattacharya, with epidemiologists Martin Kulldorff of Harvard and Sunetra Gupta
of Oxford, is a co-author of the Great Barrington Declaration, arguing for
protecting the vulnerable while allowing those with little risk to go about
their business.

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In an interview in October on the "Uncommon Knowledge" podcast with Peter
Robinson of the Hoover Institution at Stanford, he said the unintended
consequences of the lockdowns are immense. They include the estimated 100
million people thrown into poverty, the missing treatments for cancer and other
serious diseases, and the 1 in 4 young adults who reported to the CDC that they
have considered suicide during the pandemic.

The lockdowns favored the rich, the "laptop class," he said, who had one-third
the death rate of the poor. Bhattacharya said it was "almost a reversed focus
protection; we exposed the vulnerable and protected the well-to-do young."



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to hospitals. It's already happening. But the good news is that huge numbers of
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showdown is laid out as never before in the sensational October issue of WND's
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