Mon Aug 28, 2023 – 11:02 am EDTMon Aug 28, 2023 – 11:26 am EDT
(The Daily Sceptic) — Good grief. Will they never give up? A major new evidence review from the prestigious Royal Society has concluded that lockdowns, mask-wearing, and other non-pharmaceutical interventions were “unequivocally” effective in cutting COVID-19 transmission. Is such a confident conclusion warranted? Of course not. But then, much of the work was carried out in China and Professor Neil Ferguson was one of the peer-reviewers, so what would you expect?
Released on Thursday morning, the report had the desired impact in the media. “Lockdowns and the ‘Rule of Six’ did slow the spread of COVID,” declared the Daily Mail.
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“Lockdowns and masks helped reduce transmission,” announced the British Medical Journal. “Non-pharmaceutical interventions (NPIs) were ‘unequivocally’ effective when rolled out in tandem during the COVID pandemic and led to ‘powerful, effective and prolonged reductions in viral transmission,’ says a report by a team of experts brought together by the Royal Society,” it adds.
In the Times, Tom Whipple writes that the reduction from lockdowns was found to be “about 50%”:
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