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COVID-19 lockdowns: Is the cure worse than the disease?
mental health toll of loneliness and isolation.People sometimes sum these up as “the cure is worse than the disease.”Writing in BMJ Global Health, public health experts emphasize that it is challenging to disentangle the health effects of lockdowns from the health effects of the pandemic.However, their own analysis suggests that it is unlikely that government interventions have been worse for public health — at least in the short term — than the pandemic itself.They considered not only overall mortality rates but also disruptions to health services, mental health effects, and the number of suicides. The research was an international collaboration between scientists in Australia, Denmark, the United Kingdom, and the United States.