Is the cure really worse than the disease? The health impacts of lockdowns during COVID-19

Affiliations

• ¹ Western Sydney Diabetes, Western Sydney Local Health District, Blacktown, New South Wales, Australia gideon.meyerowitzkatz@health.nsw.gov.au.
• ² School of Health and Society, University of Wollongong, Wollongong, New South Wales, Australia.
• ³ Department of Public Health, University of Copenhagen, Kobenhavn, Denmark.
• ⁴ Faculty of Medicine, School of Public Health, Imperial College London, London, UK.
• ⁵ Oxford Applied and Theoretical Machine Learning (OATML) Group, Department of Computer Science, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK.
• ⁶ College of Public Health, Medical and Veterinary Sciences, James Cook University, Townsville, Queensland, Australia.
• ⁷ Duke Global Health Institute, Duke University, Durham, North Carolina, USA.