New study says pandemic preparedness is mostly futile

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Kevin Drum
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Alex Tabarrok and Robert Tucker Omberg have published a new paper which confirms a thought that's been rattling around in my head for a while. The thought is this: aside from vaccines, pretty much nothing has much effect on the spread of COVID-19. As usual, I'll lead with a couple of charts. The fir...

Alex Tabarrok and Robert Tucker Omberg have published a new paper which confirms a thought that's been rattling around in my head for a while. The thought is this: aside from vaccines, pretty much nothing has much effect on the spread of COVID-19.

As usual, I'll lead with a couple of charts. The first one measures excess deaths as a function of the quality of a country's health care system:

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Alex Tabarrok 2mos

Very good @kdrum post on my recent paper with @tuckeromberg Is it Possible to Prepare for a Pandemic?