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Introduction

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How many people have been infected

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The measured case fatality rate

2:54

The flu fatality rate

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When was the virus first seeded

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Is this more lethal than the flu

4:47

What do we need to know

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The modern press

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Different kinds of tests

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Testing populations

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Crushing the economy

12:46

Overwhelmed healthcare

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Timeline for testing

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Funding

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Mortality

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How do people die

17:41

What if we stop quarantine

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The practical timeline

20:53

Treatments

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The Medical Profession

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The Wall Street Journal

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The cloak of authority

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The new normal

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Surveillance

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Role of the Federal Government

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Questioning Conventional Wisdom in the COVID-19 Crisis, with Dr. Jay Bhattacharya
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2020Mar 31
Recorded on March 27, 2020 Dr. Jay Bhattacharya is a professor of medicine at Stanford University. He is a research associate at the National Bureau of Economic Research and a senior fellow at both the Stanford Institute for Economic Policy Research and the Stanford Freeman Spogli Institute. His March 24, 2020, article in the Wall Street Journal questions the premise that “coronavirus would kill millions without shelter-in-place orders and quarantines.” In the article he suggests that “there’s little evidence to confirm that premise—and projections of the death toll could plausibly be orders of magnitude too high.” In this edition of Uncommon Knowledge with Peter Robinson we asked Dr. Bhattacharya to defend that statement and describe to us how he arrived at this conclusion. We get into the details of his research, which used data collected from hotspots around the world and his background as a doctor, a medical researcher, and an economist. It’s not popular right now to question conventional wisdom on sheltering in place, but Dr. Bhattacharya makes a strong case for challenging it, based in economics and science. For further information: https://www.hoover.org/publications/u... Interested in exclusive Uncommon Knowledge content? Check out Uncommon Knowledge on social media! Facebook:   / uncknowledge   Twitter:   / uncknowledge   Instagram:   / uncommon_knowledge_show  

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