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What scientists have learnt from COVID lockdowns

Restrictions on social contact stemmed disease spread, but weighing up the ultimate costs and benefits of lockdown measures is a challenge.
  1. Dyani Lewis

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A man crosses an empty highway road on 3 February 2020 in Wuhan, Hubei province, China.

A man walks across a deserted highway in Wuhan, China, in February 2020, during the city’s first lockdown. Credit: Getty Images

In March 2021, a doctor in Brazil named Ricardo Savaris published a now-discredited research paper that went viral on social media1.

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Nature 609, 236-239 (2022)

doi: https://doi.org/10.1038/d41586-022-02823-4

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