Overwhelming evidence suggests that lockdowns help contain coronavirus outbreaks and prevent additional deaths.
China, Germany, and Spain all saw their number of daily infections drop off after lockdowns were instated.
"Social distancing provided by the lockdowns has clearly slowed the spread of the virus," Jeffrey Morris, director of the biostatistics division at the University of Pennsylvania, told Business Insider.
In Italy, towns with lockdown measures also seemed to fare better than those without.
"Clearly we need for society to practice new levels of caution in terms of social distancing, hygiene, and mask-wearing," Morris said. "Even they came at a great cost, Lockdowns achieved this."
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