Audio long read: What scientists have learnt from COVID lockdowns
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In March 2021, a doctor in Brazil named Ricardo Savares published a now-discredited research paper that went viral on social media. It had been a year since the first wave of the COVID-19 pandemic forced governments to apply desperate measures collectively known as lockdowns. The findings were quite remarkable on the face of it, says Gideon Mayavid's cats, an epidemiologist at the University of Wollongong, Australia. As he and others would show, the results were wrong because of errors in the paper's choice of statistical methods.
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