Advance: Illusory effects of NPI on Covid
“In a recent article, Flaxman et al.1allegethat non-pharmaceutical interventions imposedby 811European countries saved millions of lives. We show that their methodsinvolve circular 9reasoning.Thepurportedeffects are pure artefacts, which contradict the data. Moreover, we 10demonstrate that the United Kingdom’s lockdown was both superfluous and ineffective.”