Most scientists agree that lockdowns did curb COVID-19 deaths. But there is debate about the utility of any subsequent lockdown measures. Even in countries that didn't emulate China's all-in approach, ordering citizens to stay at home and isolating people with COVID in central facilities, lockdown measures still cut disease spread. Lockdowns do reduce viral transmission as the shutdown of Wuhan, China showed when SARS-CoV2 first emerged.

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