Probing academic consensus on COVID-19 mitigation: are lockdown policies favoured mainly in high-income countries?

Fanelli, Daniele ORCID: 0000-0003-1780-1958 (2020) Probing academic consensus on COVID-19 mitigation: are lockdown policies favoured mainly in high-income countries? LSE COVID-19 Blog (18 Dec 2020). Blog Entry.

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Abstract

Lockdown policies are thought to reflect the scientific consensus. But how do we measure that consensus? Daniele Fanelli (LSE) set up a site that enables academics to anonymously give their views on the ‘focused protection’ model endorsed by the ‘Great Barrington Declaration’, and found some striking differences between both countries and genders.

Item Type:	Online resource (Blog Entry)
Official URL:	https://blogs.lse.ac.uk/covid19/
Additional Information:	© 2020 The Author
Divisions:	Methodology
Subjects:	R Medicine > RA Public aspects of medicine > RA0421 Public health. Hygiene. Preventive Medicine H Social Sciences > HV Social pathology. Social and public welfare. Criminology
Date Deposited:	19 Jan 2021 13:48
Last Modified:	11 Sep 2025 13:04
URI:	http://eprints.lse.ac.uk/id/eprint/108276

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