If Books Could Kill
Michael Hobbes & Peter Shamshiri
"In Covid's Wake" Part 2: Wrong About The Right
About This Episode
Last episode we met two Princeton political scientists who are bad at virology. Today we learn that they are also bad at political science.
Where to find us:
Sources:
- Lawrence Wright’s “The Plague Year”
- Jonathan Howard’s “We Want Them Infected”
- How the Pandemic Defeated America
- COVID-19: examining the effectiveness of non-pharmaceutical interventions
- US State Restrictions and Excess COVID-19 Pandemic Deaths
- Impact of non-pharmaceutical interventions
- Policy Interventions, Social Distancing, and SARS-CoV-2 Transmission
- The Impact of Vaccines and Behavior on US Cumulative Deaths
- Pro-Trump counties now have far higher COVID death rates
- Report for the Scottish COVID-19 Inquiry
- The Effectiveness Of Government Masking Mandates
- School closures during COVID-19
- COVID-19–Related School Closures
- The Effects of School Closures on COVID‑19
- Higher COVID-19 Deaths with Later School Closure in the United States
- Reopening America’s Schools
- Reading literacy decline in Europe
- DeSantis vs. Newsom
- Red States Have Seen Less Learning Loss
- Political partisanship and mobility restriction
- Republicans Aren’t New To The Anti-Vaxx Movement
- KFF poll on anti-vaxx beliefs
Thanks to Mindseye for our theme song!
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