Joe Rogan claims 'lockdowns don't work' in new podcast

Joe Rogan has claimed lockdowns “don’t stop the spread” of Covid in his first Spotify podcast back after facing a massive backlash for spreading pandemic misinformation.

Rogan also incorrectly claimed the Canadian city Montreal was under a 10pm curfew in a new episode of The Joe Rogan Experience released on Friday.

A peer-reviewed study of lockdowns published in Nature in 2020 estimated lockdowns had likely saved up to three million lives in Europe during the first wave of Covid.

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