We Just Got Even More Proof that Stay-At-Home Orders Lethally Backfired - Foundation for Economic Education

We Just Got Even More Proof that Stay-At-Home Orders Lethally Backfired - Foundation for Economic Education:

• A new study finds that lockdown orders didn’t reduce overall mortality, and may have even increased it.

"... now, yet another study suggests that the benefits wrought by our collective sacrifice were negligible at best—and that stay-at-home orders may even have increased overall mortality.
In a new paper, economists from the University of Southern California and the RAND Corporation examined the effectiveness of “shelter-in-place” (SIP) mandates, aka stay-at-home orders, using data from 43 countries and all 50 US states. 

The experts analyze not just deaths from COVID-19, but “excess deaths,” a measure that compares overall deaths from all causes to a historical baseline.

...So, to find out whether stay-at-home orders truly helped more than they hurt, examining excess deaths, not just pandemic outcomes, is key.
The results aren’t pretty.
“We fail to find that shelter-in-place policies saved lives,” the authors report. 

Indeed, they conclude that in the weeks following the implementation of these policies, excess mortality actually increases—even though it had typically been declining before the orders took effect. 

And across all countries...Read all.