47,000 more people died of this disease in 2020 due to lockdowns

FEE’s Brad Polumbo writes, “Governments around the world took drastic measures in 2020 in hopes of slowing the spread of COVID-19, in many cases locking down economies and confining people to their homes for months on end. The extent to which these measures actually helped contain the COVID-19 pandemic is highly dubious. But the death toll from the unintended consequences of lockdowns continues to mount.

People around the world will be paying for lockdowns with their lives for years to come.https://t.co/JHlrwuDH55

— Jon Miltimore (@miltimore79) December 6, 2021

The World Health Organization (WHO) just reported that pandemic measures delayed and disrupted medical care for the global malaria crisis, leading to tens of thousands of additional deaths. An astounding 14 million additional malaria cases were recorded in 2020 compared to 2019, the WHO says. So, too, we saw 69,000 more malaria deaths in 2020 compared to 2019, 47,000 of which the organization says are directly attributable to disrupted diagnosis and treatment stemming from government pandemic restrictions.

That’s right: In their ultimately ineffective efforts to contain the COVID-19 pandemic, governments around the world inadvertently fueled the threat of another infectious disease.”

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