Lessons to Be Learned From the COVID-19 Pandemic: Some Further Ideas

Lessons to be learned from the COVID-19 Pandemic: some further ideas characters 68 389 characters Quinn et al.1 have done an exceptional work. I offer some further suggestion. The Authors state: (page 8) "the progression of the pandemic was largely independent of government measures". Indeed, some government measures were even counterproductive for hard outcomes. For example, all-cause mortality excess in 2020 (pre-vaccination era) versus mean mortality 2015-2019 (Our World in Data) was not favorably associated with the lockdown index (Oxford University Database). Rather, it was slightly unfavorably associated with mortality both globally, and in subanalysis by gross domestic product per capita ($