A recent study published in Science Advances by scientists from Stanford and Harvard analyzed government responses to the Covid-19 pandemic across 181 countries during 2020 and 2021. The study utilized 100,000 models to assess the impact of these policies on Covid-19 outcomes. The findings indicate that there is no consistent evidence that government interventions had a systematic effect on the trajectory of the virus. About half the time, government policies were followed by better Covid-19 outcomes, while the other half showed no improvement or even contradictory results. Some policies appeared helpful when tested one way but harmful when tested another. The study highlights the lack of data available to form rational public health policies for future pandemics, suggesting that the effectiveness of government responses remains inconclusive. The findings align with the available published literature.
Data don't support strong claims for Covid-19 pandemic responses. https://t.co/5y7OHeGoPc
New paper in Science Advances by scientists at Stanford and Harvard confirms the available published literature: There is no evidence of an association between government Covid responses and any benefit. There were only harms. The government response was simply evil. https://t.co/Xmu0OQUSvY
Large data sets from all over the world, assembled and reassembled in every conceivable way, and the result is the same as with every other study along these lines. The government response had no systematic effect of the virus trajectory. https://t.co/PZedTroGgw
“About half the time, govt policies were followed by better Covid19 outcomes, & half of the time they were not. The findings were sometimes contradictory, w/ some policies appearing helpful when tested one way, and the same policy appearing harmful..” https://t.co/xuggBE8K7L
Very few policies have had as large a health impact as COVID prevention/abatement ones. Take home from this study: (reported in @statnews https://t.co/nlRTBODQYl) we did not have and STILL do not have the data for rational public health policy for a similar pandemic. [in the… https://t.co/qwi0lItxP6
Haven't we learned anything about stopping pandemics? When it comes to government policy and COVID-19, the answer is: "no, we don't have the data." I write an op-ed with Eran Bendavid in @statnews: https://t.co/10tK7t1Aoo about our research paper in @ScienceAdvances:…
Did government responses in 181 countries in 2020 and 2021 affect outcomes in the Covid-19 pandemic? 100,000 models show it's hard to say. https://t.co/8m4DfxdQ98