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quarantine
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Our elected executives face a bias to action, worsened by the 24-hour news cycle and running tallies of COVID-19 cases and deaths.
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FeaturedGovernmentHealth CareLiberty
Failures of an Influential COVID-19 Model Used to Justify Lockdowns
by Kevin Dayaratna May 19, 2020Professor Neil Ferguson, who led the COVID-19 modeling team at Imperial College in London, resigned May 5 from his government advisory role after breaking the very same British lockdown rules that he had a role in influencing.
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We have experienced unprecedented economic effects of the COVID-19 pandemic and social distancing policies. Twenty two million Americans lost jobs in four weeks.
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EconomicsFeaturedHealth Care
The Pandemic or the Recession: Which is More Costly?
by Daniel Sutter April 13, 2020The United States has taken unprecedented actions to halt the spread of the novel coronavirus and the illness it causes, COVID-19. How bad will this be for the economy?