COVID-19 Shelter-In-Place Policies Failed to Save Lives: Study

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A new study that examined โ€œexcess deathโ€ data to gauge the impact of shelter-in-place policies on mortality concluded that lockdowns or stay-at-home policies failed to save lives.

Economists from the University of Southern California and the RAND Corporation sought to evaluate the net impact of shelter-in-place (SIP) mandates by examining excess death data from 43 countries and all 50 U.S. states.

Researchers determine excess deaths, or excess mortality, by comparing the observed number of deaths to an expected number of deaths derived from statistical models.

โ€œWe use an event study framework to quantify changes in the number of excess deaths after the implementation of a SIP policy. We find that following the implementation of SIP policies, excess mortality increases,โ€ the researchers wrote in aย working paperย (pdf below) published under the auspices of the National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER).

Looking at data from both the United States and other countries, the researchers concluded, โ€œwe fail to find that SIP policies saved lives. To the contrary, we find a positive association between SIP policies and excess deaths.โ€

โ€œWe failed to find that countries or U.S. states that implemented SIP policies earlier, and in which SIP policies had longer to operate, had lower excess deaths than countries/U.S. states that were slower to implement SIP policies,โ€ the researchers wrote.

โ€œWe also failed to observe differences in excess death trends before and after the implementation of SIP policies based on pre-SIP COVID-19 death rates,โ€ they added.

While the researchers acknowledged that preliminary evidence suggested that shelter-in-place policies slowed COVID-19 transmission early in the pandemic in the United States, they noted that more recent studies suggest that people changed their behaviorโ€”such as wearing masks or social distancingโ€”based on the dynamics of the outbreak, not policies.

BYย TOM OZIMEK

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