New modelling shows that 'shielding' strategies instead of lockdowns would have led to tens of thousands more deaths - EurekAlert

• Shielding vulnerable people while allowing Covid-19 to run through the rest of the population had been proposed as an alternative strategy to lockdowns. • Modelling by University of Bath scientists shows it would ultimately have failed as infections ‘leak t…

Shielding those vulnerable to COVID-19, while allowing the virus to spread, largely unmitigated, through the rest of the population, would have failed according to a new modelling paper published tod… [+5961 chars]

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