COVID-19: Do Lock-Downs Work?

If you’re looking for evidence that stay-at-home orders and business closures don’t help control COVID-19, here it is:

In summary, we fail to find strong evidence supporting a role for more restrictive non-pharmacological interventions in the control of COVID in early 2020. We do not question the role of all public health interventions, or of coordinated communications about the epidemic, but we fail to find an additional benefit of stay-at-home orders and business closures.

– John P.A. Ioannidis, et al.