That's a remarkable statement. I have no idea what she is basing that on. Non-pharmaceutical interventions saved an estimate 850,000 lives. Difficult to say which interventions were responsible, but she needs strong evidence to make this assertion.
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This study uses influenza mortality reduction (IMR) as an indicator of the aggregate effect of non-pharmaceutical interventions (NPI’s) on the spread of respiratory infections to assess their impact o...