Business shutdowns reduce COVID-19 deaths, though with rapidly diminishing returns, with study of Italian lockdowns estimating they saved over 9,400 lives in under a month.
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Article Title: Closed for business: The mortality impact of business closures during the Covid-19 pandemic
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Article URL: https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0251373
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