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All you have to do is look at a deaths/infections curve before and after mitigations.

• rajin444 5y ago
  Yes, but you need a control to compare it against. How do you get one?
  • nielsbot 5y ago
    Just look at the trend line? You might also want to look at the excess statistically significant deaths numbers. https://www.ft.com/content/6bd88b7d-3386-4543-b2e9-0d5c6fac846c https://www.ft.com/content/6bd88b7d-3386-4543-b2e9-0d5c6fac8...
    • rajin444 5y ago
      You need controls to account for confounding factors. Looking at a trend line does not account for confounding factors.
      • nielsbot 5y ago
        Ok, what would be a confounding factor?
• natural219 5y ago
  it's been looked at several times, and a vast majority of the convincing evidence seems to fall in favor of the camp that overall mitigations do nearly nothing compared to control samples of places with no/fewer restrictions https://slatestarcodex.com/2020/05/18/coronalinks-5-18-20-when-all-you-have-is-a-hammer-everything-starts-looking-like-a-dance/ https://slatestarcodex.com/2020/05/18/coronalinks-5-18-20-wh...
  • kenjackson 5y ago
    That article is more than a year old. A far newer, more complete assessment shows that mitigations do you have an impact in reducing deaths and infections: https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2021.07.28.21261286v1.full https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2021.07.28.21261286v...