New COVID study finds pandemic mandates did, in fact, save lives
A new study out of the University of Virginia combined data from all 50 states to see how COVID restrictions did or didn’t reduce pandemic deaths.
Despite criticism – even today – that COVID restrictions were tyrannical and unnecessary, the paper shows that states with more stringent mask and vaccine mandates did in fact save lives, and that states without those measures could have prevented excess deaths had they followed similar strictures.
While hindsight is, in this case, literally 2020 – the study should inform our response to future pandemics.
Soundside spoke with the paper's author…
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