Nocera: Comparing lockdown and non-lockdown country data shows no difference
Joe Nocera · Your pandemic business takeaways are wrong | Masters of Scale · Nov 9, 2023 · at 5:23
Author Joe Nocera discusses the effectiveness of COVID-19 pandemic interventions while discussing his book, The Big Fail, with host Bob Safian.
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“They don't work. If you look at countries that locked down versus countries that didn't lock down, you don't, you can't tell which is which. You absolutely can't.”
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