Resumen de Insights into the developing countries’ inappropriate responses to COVID-19: A randomized controlled trial analytical framework
We resort to the Democratic Republic of Congo as a case study and the tracing and isolating method used against the 2018–2020 Ebola epidemic as a counterfactual assessing the appropriateness of lockdowns used against the COVID-19 pandemic. The outcome indicates that lockdowns were irrational responses for developing countries: the number of lives they have saved is negligible compared to that of deaths they have caused by, among many other economic consequences, deepening malnutrition and hunger. This is an alarming result as the poorest accounts for most of those deaths which are susceptible to increase during the post-COVID-19 economic crisis if adequate assistance is not delivered by domestic governments and the international community.
