Risch, a professor of epidemiology at the Yale School of medicine, called them “counterproductive.” Howard Tenenbaum Photo by Supplied photo /Toronto Sun
He said while lockdowns can reduce the numbers of COVID-infected patients, they only have a fighting chance when you can move every infected person out of a population.
Once the lockdown ends, there are people waiting to be infected, he noted.
“Once an epidemic has spread widely in a population or around the world, there’s no chance you can eradicate the virus completely,” Risch said, adding that putting travellers in quarantine for 14 days is also a waste of time.
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