If Books Could Kill
Michael Hobbes & Peter Shamshiri
"In Covid's Wake" Part 1: Lying About Lockdowns
About This Episode
Two political scientists look back at a deadly pandemic and ask, "could we have done even less?"
Where to find us:
Sources:
- Lawrence Wright’s “The Plague Year”
- The 2019 WHO report
- 30‐day mortality following COVID‐19
- COVID-19: examining the effectiveness of non-pharmaceutical interventions
- Policy Interventions, Social Distancing, and SARS-CoV-2 Transmission in the United States
- What we can learn from Sweden
- A review of the Swedish policy response to COVID-19
- How Sweden approached the COVID‐19 pandemic
- The first eight months of Sweden’s COVID‐19 strategy
- The Swedish COVID-19 Response Is a Disaster
- Excess mortality in Denmark, Finland, Norway and Sweden during the COVID-19 pandemic
- Comparing drivers of pandemic economic decline 2020
- How Sweden approached the COVID-19 pandemic
- Comparisons of all-cause mortality between European countries and regions
- Jonathan Howard’s “We Want Them Infected.”
- Deaths: Leading Causes for 2021
- Stay-at-home orders associate with subsequent decreases in COVID-19 cases and fatalities in the United States
- Did the Timing of State Mandated Lockdown Affect the Spread of COVID-19?
- US State Restrictions and Excess COVID-19 Pandemic Deaths
Thanks to Mindseye for our theme song!
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