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Yale Doctor Harvey Risch Calls COVID Lockdown Counterproductive
On 4/20/21 at 4:33 PM EDT
Newsweek, Once the virus became endemic, lockdown is counterproductive. In our real world, the virus will continue to spread until it cannot reach enough new or susceptible people to infect, that is, herd immunity. Thus lockdown only prolongs the inevitable, he wrote in response to
Newsweek s questions. The reason that lockdown is counterproductive is that, as I said, the pandemic ends with herd immunity.
Harvey Risch, a professor of epidemiology at the Yale, recently questioned the usefulness of COVID-19 lockdowns.
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Risch recently spoke with the
Toronto Sun regarding COVID-19 and lockdowns. That article drew some attention since it quoted him as referring to lockdowns as theater.
Risch, a professor of epidemiology at the Yale School of medicine, called them “counterproductive.” Howard Tenenbaum Photo by Supplied photo /Toronto Sun
He said while lockdowns can reduce the numbers of COVID-infected patients, they only have a fighting chance when you can move every infected person out of a population.
Once the lockdown ends, there are people waiting to be infected, he noted.
“Once an epidemic has spread widely in a population or around the world, there’s no chance you can eradicate the virus completely,” Risch said, adding that putting travellers in quarantine for 14 days is also a waste of time.
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