The Efficacy of Lockdowns

The following research papers are posted here with little or no commentary to allow the readers of the research papers to form their own opinions as to the efficacy of lockdown strategies.

Further links will be added as they become available https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/eci.13484 https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2020.07.22.20160341v3 https://www.thelancet.com/journals/eclinm/article/PIIS2589-5370(20)30208-X/fulltext https://www.scribd.com/document/491093248/Comment-on-Inferring-change-points-in-the-spread-of-COVID-19-reveals-the-effectiveness-of-interventions https://arxiv.org/pdf/2005.02090.pdf https://www.datascienceassn.org/sites/default/files/Illusory%20Effects%20of%20Non-pharmaceutical%20Interventions%20on%20COVID19%20in%20Europe.pdf https://www.timesofisrael.com/the-end-of-exponential-growth-the-decline-in-the-spread-of-coronavirus/

https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2020.05.01.20088260v2 https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2020.04.24.20078717v1

https://www.nicholaslewis.org/did-lockdowns-really-save-3-million-covid-19-deaths-as-flaxman-et-al-claim/

https://www.bmj.com/content/371/bmj.m3588 https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2020.03.30.20047860v3

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2652751/

https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=3607803 https://imgcdn.larepublica.co/cms/2020/05/21180548/JP-Morgan.pdf https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jama/fullarticle/2768086 https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2020.10.09.20210146v3

https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=3665588 https://www.nber.org/papers/w27719

https://www.bmj.com/content/370/bmj.m3543 https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2020.11.01.20222315v1 https://www.pandata.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/07/Exploring-inter-country-variation.pdf

https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/00779954.2020.1844786?journalCode=rnzp20& http://www.upmc-biosecurity.org/website/resources/publications/2006/2006-09-15-diseasemitigationcontrolpandemicflu.html https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2020.12.25.20248853v1 https://torontosun.com/opinion/columnists/canadian-experts-research-finds-lockdown-harms-are-10-times-greater-than-benefits With thanks to @the_brumby for sharing the majority of these papers at the time this blog post was originally published.