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From the paper: >We failed to find that countries or U.S. states that implemented shelter-in-place policies earlier, and in which shelter-in-place policies had
by hammock 5y ago
From the paper:
>We failed to find that countries or U.S. states that implemented shelter-in-place policies earlier, and in which shelter-in-place policies had longer to operate, had lower excess deaths than countries-and U.S. states that were slower to implement shelter-in-place policies. We also failed to observe differences in excess death trends before and after the implementation of [shelter-in-place] policies based on pre-shelter-in-place COVID-19 death rates.
- criticaltinker 5y ago> the effects of SIP policies on public health are a priori ambiguous as they might have unintended adverse effects on health This is yet another paper contributing to a growing body of evidence suggesting that collectively and scientifically we do not deeply understand the higher order consequences of mandatory interventions such as lock-downs, school/work/daycare closures, social distancing, etc. These effects are crucial to understand because they govern the tradeoff between benefits and consequences, which is the central concern of all public health policy.