Research Plan Lockdowns

Reanalysis of several meta-analysis papers dealing with the effects of lockdowns

Many Systematic Review and Meta-analysis, SRMA, studies based on observational studies are appearing in the literature. There is a need to be able to evaluate the reliability of a SRMA. Starting with the risk ratios and confidence limits, we compute a p-value for each study and examine the distribution of the p-values using a p-value plot. In this paper we examine four SRMAs dealing with the effects of COVID lockdowns on humans.