Corona: Allgemeine Kritik an den Corona-Maßnahmen

• A phenomenological approach to assessing the effectiveness of COVID-19 related nonpharmaceutical interventions in Germany November 2020 :

the effectiveness of most German interventions remains questionable. Moreover, assessing of interventions is impeded by the estimation of true infection dates and the influence of test volume.

• Covid-19 Mortality: A Matter of Vulnerability Among Nations Facing Limited Margins of Adaptation 19.11.2020:

Stringency of the measures settled to fight pandemia, including lockdown, did not appear to be linked with death rate.

• Association between living with children and outcomes from COVID-19: an OpenSAFELY cohort study of 12 million adults in England 2.11.2020:

For adults living with children there is no evidence of an increased risk of severe COVID-19 outcomes. These findings have implications for determining the benefit-harm balance of children attending school in the COVID-19 pandemic.

• Covid-19: How does Belarus have one of the lowest death rates in Europe? 15.9.2020:

Belarus’s ... President Aleksander Lukashenko, ... has flatly denied the seriousness of the pandemic, refusing to impose a lockdown, close schools, or cancel mass events like the Belarusian football league or the Victory Day parade.

Yet the country’s death rate is among the lowest in Europe—just over 700 in a population of 9.5 million with over 73 000 confirmed cases.

• FOUR STYLIZED FACTS ABOUT COVID-19 August 2020:

Our findings ... further raise doubt about the importance in NPI’s (lockdown policies in particular) in accounting for the evolution of COVID-19 transmission rates over time and across locations.

• Did Lockdown Work? An Economist’s Cross-Country Comparison 6.8.2020:

Evaluated as a whole, at a first glance, the lockdown policies of the Spring of 2020 therefore appear to

be substantial long-run government failures.