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Rep. Greg Murphy to Newsmax: Progressives Used Mandates as 'Political Avenue'
(Newsmax's "Wake Up America")
By Sandy Fitzgerald | Saturday, 05 February 2022 11:26 AM
Even though experts learned quickly lockdowns "really weren't changing anything" with the spread of COVID-19, progressives used the measure as a "political avenue to continue to push control," Rep. Greg Murphy, R-N.C., who is also a physician, told Newsmax.
Murphy was responding to a Johns Hopkins University study showing lockdowns in spring 2020 did little to stem the spread of the virus.
"It was something called a meta-analysis, which is a study of other studies, so it gives it a lot more veracity about what its findings work, but have found out that despite all the things that we did because of the virus, we've affected the change very, very little," Murphy told Saturday's "Wake Up America."
According to the Johns Hopkins report, lockdowns in the spring of 2020 reduced COVID-19 mortality by only 0.2% in the U.S. and Europe but "imposed enormous economic and social costs where they have been adopted."
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