Stanford School of Medicine Professor Michael Levitt, who won the 2013 Nobel Prize in Chemistry, says the strict lockdown measures imposed to combat the coronavirus pandemic may have cost more lives than they saved.
"I think lockdown saved no lives," Levitt said on Saturday, The Telegraph reported.
"I think it may have cost lives. It will have saved a few road accident lives, things like that, but social damage - domestic abuse, divorces, alcoholism - has been extreme. And then you have those who were not treated for other conditions," he explained.
Levitt correctly predicted the scale of the pandemic, which most models, such as the widely publicized model from Imperial College, grossly overestimated.
There is no doubt in my mind, that when we come to look back on this, the damage done by lockdown will exceed any saving of lives by a huge factor.
Levitt's observations are already proving true.
As TheBlaze reported last week, California doctors said they've seen more deaths from suicide than coronavirus during the mandatory lockdowns.
https://www.theblaze.com/news/nobel-prize-winning-scientist-explains-why-covid-lockdowns-may-have-cost-more-lives-than-they-saved
"I think lockdown saved no lives," Levitt said on Saturday, The Telegraph reported.
"I think it may have cost lives. It will have saved a few road accident lives, things like that, but social damage - domestic abuse, divorces, alcoholism - has been extreme. And then you have those who were not treated for other conditions," he explained.
Levitt correctly predicted the scale of the pandemic, which most models, such as the widely publicized model from Imperial College, grossly overestimated.
There is no doubt in my mind, that when we come to look back on this, the damage done by lockdown will exceed any saving of lives by a huge factor.
Levitt's observations are already proving true.
As TheBlaze reported last week, California doctors said they've seen more deaths from suicide than coronavirus during the mandatory lockdowns.
https://www.theblaze.com/news/nobel-prize-winning-scientist-explains-why-covid-lockdowns-may-have-cost-more-lives-than-they-saved
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