Nocera: Great Barrington Declaration approach was the right pandemic response
Joe Nocera · Your pandemic business takeaways are wrong | Masters of Scale · Nov 9, 2023 · at 6:38
Author Joe Nocera reflects on public policy trade-offs and alternative epidemiological frameworks during the COVID-19 pandemic.
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“The heroes of our book, they're the guys who wrote the Great Barrington Declaration, and their view was, you protect the elderly and the immunocompromised, and you let everybody else live their life. When you get down to little kids, I mean, very, very few little kids truly got sick from COVID. So, you know, the idea that you try and let the society coexist with the disease To the extent possible is, in the end, what I think was the right answer.”
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