It’s excellent that we now finally have a substantial scientific and economic evaluation of the COVID lockdowns pushed by insane governments around the world. Below are three versions of the Hopkins study and also interviews with one of the authors.

June 2023

Did lockdowns work? The verdict on Covid restrictions (pdf)
Jonas Herby, Dr. Lars Jonung, and Professor Steve H. Hanke
Institute of Economic Affairs

Covid lockdowns were a costly failure
John Campbell

Lockdowns, a global policy failure
John Campbell

June 2022

Lockdowns Actually Saved SHOCKINGLY Few Lives – Fake Fact Checkers DEBUNKED
Jimmy Dore profiles Professor Hanke

May 2022

A Literature Review and Meta-Analysis of the Effects of Lockdowns on COVID-19 Mortality: II (pdf)
Jonas Herby, Lars Jonung, and Steve H. Hanke
Johns Hopkins Institute for Applied Economics, Global Health, and the Study of Business Enterprise

January 2022

A Literature Review and Meta-Analysis of the Effects of Lockdowns on COVID-19 Mortality
Jonas Herby, Lars Jonung, and Steve H. Hanke
Johns Hopkins Institute for Applied Economics, Global Health, and the Study of Business Enterprise

June 2021

Covid-19 Lockdowns and their Ratchet Effect of Increasing Government Control
Steve H. Hanke