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Are you saying that social distancing doesn't work to immediately stop the spread, or that it would never work to stop the spread?
by klevertree 6y ago
Are you saying that social distancing doesn't work to immediately stop the spread, or that it would never work to stop the spread?
- trboyden 6y agoThere is a lack of evidence to support either assumption. There is anecdotal evidence that suggest it might work and plenty of examples where it was not done and there was no significant increase in Covid infections/hospitalizations (Sweden).
- trboyden 6y agoHere is one of the first studies (https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-020-01248-1 https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-020-01248-1) on the relationship between lock-down policies and death rates. In the graph shown in the middle of the article, you can see there is no impact on the death rate by moderate to severe lock-down policies. All countries experienced essentially the same rate of death from Covid regardless of lock-down and social distancing policies. The only outlier is Hong Kong, whose reported statistics are questionable at best given the level of government oppression occurring in that state leading up to the Covid crisis.