Bold COVID-19 study claim says hard lockdowns undermined vaccine effectiveness

Covid lockdowns —  saw people largely confined to their homes — and also involved the closure of many parks and fitness centres. According to Sport England, the number of adults in England who got in the recommended 150 minutes of exercise per week fell by 710,000 in the period from November 2019 to November 2020 compared to the same period a year before.

Paper author and sports medicine expert Professor Jon Patricios of the University of Witwatersrand in Johannesburg told the Telegraph: “In terms of policy, retrospectively we can say that those hard lockdowns were counterproductive from an immune point of view.

“At that stage, policy makers based decisions on what they knew at the time, and that was largely fear driven.

“Now we know what we know, we would encourage people to exercise. We’ve always understood that physical activity has a protective effect against non-communicable diseases, but now we know we can protect against viral infection.”

Article source: https://www.express.co.uk/news/science/1687350/covid-coronavirus-hard-lockdown-undermined-vaccine-effectiveness-science-news-latest