“The pandemic was a mass death event. It was also a very messy one for determining the effects of particular public policy interventions on COVID transmission, death, and economic performance. It’ll take years of research to get anywhere close to definitively answering big questions about what policies worked and what didn’t.”
https://reason.com/2022/10/18/gavin-newsom-cites-dubious-evidence-that-his-lockdowns-saved-californias-economy/