June 17, 2020
Advance: Social Sciences & Humanities
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“In a recent article, Flaxman et al. allege that non-pharmaceutical interventions imposed by European countries saved millions of lives. We show that their methods involve circular reasoning. The purported effects are pure artefacts, which contradict the data. Moreover, we demonstrate that the United Kingdom’s lockdown was both superfluous and ineffective.”
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