Johan Giesecke

Johan Giesecke is the former Swedish state epidemiologist and an adviser to the WHO

Does lockdown really decrease Covid deaths?

From our UK edition

It has become clear that a hard lockdown does not protect old and frail people living in care homes – a population the lockdown was designed to protect. Neither does it decrease mortality from Covid-19, which is evident when comparing the UK’s experience with that of other European countries. PCR testing and some straightforward assumptions