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Examining the impact of Melbourne’s 2020 111-day lockdown on parents and other vulnerable groups

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Zero-COVID-19 strategies used hard lockdown to save human lives. Our study used modern policy evaluation tools and high-quality longitudinal, nationally representative data and found that the lives saved during Melbourne’s hard 111-day lockdown came at a high cost to parents of young dependent children, and in particular mothers, as the lockdown continued.

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Fig. 1: Lockdown treatment effects (expressed in standard deviations), by gender and five socially relevant subgroups.

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This is a summary of: Schurer, S. et al. Quantifying the human impact of Melbourne’s 111-day hard lockdown experiment on the adult population. Nat. Hum. Behav. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41562-023-01638-1 (2023).

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