The COVID-19 pandemic raised questions about when and to what extent costly nonpharmaceutical interventions (e.g., lockdowns) should be used to slow the contagious spread of the virus. In a new study, ...

The covid lockdowns were useless for public health, but they vastly strengthened government’s stranglehold over our lives. We ...

The recent protests against the Chinese government's tough pandemic control policies have ended with a police crackdown. There are some signs though that protests have been a catalyst for change. In ...

Monash University research has found that campus-wide lockdowns at universities based in Northern China during the COVID-19 pandemic impacted university students' value of trust, honesty, and ...

Over four years after the start of mass school lockdowns during the COVID-19 pandemic, many children are still feeling the educational effects. According to a new report from the testing nonprofit ...

Regarding “Notable & Quotable: Lockdown” (Jan. 7): David Wallace-Wells, writing in the New York Times, identifies nine pandemic narratives that are wrong, including that the U.S. ever had lockdowns at ...

When prisons go on lockdown, it limits how often incarcerated people can get out of their cell and have access to phones or computers. Lockdowns during the holidays means it could be even more ...