COVID-19 lockdown – Blessing or disaster?

Despite the dubious results of the nationwide lockdown in India state after state continue to clamp lockdowns indiscriminately and claim that it is a panacea for all their ills. Unverified claims abound and myths are perpetuated without any basis. It is time to take a close look at the hard data and...

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Autores principales: Dhamija, Sana, Samudra, Madhura, Davis, Supriya, Gupta, Nishtha, Chaudhury, Suprakash
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Wolters Kluwer - Medknow 2021
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Contemporary Issue
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8611586/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/34908714
http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/0972-6748.328834
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Samudra, Madhura
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Chaudhury, Suprakash
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description Despite the dubious results of the nationwide lockdown in India state after state continue to clamp lockdowns indiscriminately and claim that it is a panacea for all their ills. Unverified claims abound and myths are perpetuated without any basis. It is time to take a close look at the hard data and come to logical conclusions regarding the utility of prolonged open-ended lockdowns. Unfortunately, the evidence does not support the use of prolonged lockdowns as a useful strategy to combat the COVID-19 pandemic.
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spelling pubmed-86115862021-12-13 COVID-19 lockdown – Blessing or disaster? Dhamija, Sana Samudra, Madhura Davis, Supriya Gupta, Nishtha Chaudhury, Suprakash Ind Psychiatry J Contemporary Issue Despite the dubious results of the nationwide lockdown in India state after state continue to clamp lockdowns indiscriminately and claim that it is a panacea for all their ills. Unverified claims abound and myths are perpetuated without any basis. It is time to take a close look at the hard data and come to logical conclusions regarding the utility of prolonged open-ended lockdowns. Unfortunately, the evidence does not support the use of prolonged lockdowns as a useful strategy to combat the COVID-19 pandemic. Wolters Kluwer - Medknow 2021-10 2021-10-22 /pmc/articles/PMC8611586/ /pubmed/34908714 http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/0972-6748.328834 Text en Copyright: © 2021 Industrial Psychiatry Journal https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0/This is an open access journal, and articles are distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 License, which allows others to remix, tweak, and build upon the work non-commercially, as long as appropriate credit is given and the new creations are licensed under the identical terms.
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