Esperanza Vera-Toscano

Aug 31, 2023 | nature.com | Stefanie Schurer |Kadir Atalay |Nick Glozier |Esperanza Vera-Toscano

AbstractLockdown was used worldwide to mitigate the spread of severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 and was the cornerstone non-pharmaceutical intervention of zero-COVID strategies. Many previous impact evaluations of lockdowns are unreliable because lockdowns co-occurred with severe coronavirus disease related health and financial insecurities. This was not the case in Melbourne’s 111-day lockdown, which left other Australian jurisdictions unaffected.