Zero-covid countries have done best it’s not too late to switch
Soldiers disinfect the Eunpyeong district against the coronavirus in March 2020 in Seoul, South Korea Woohae Cho/Getty Images
Countries that pursued strict pandemic suppression strategies fared better on measures of health, wealth civil liberties than those that didn’t, according to an analysis published in The Lancet. The analysis covers the first year of the pandemic from February 2020, but has relevance to ongoing efforts to end it. Moving to an elimination strategy even at this stage could lead to better health wealth, the authors say.
The researchers compared 37 wealthy nations’ …