EconTalk — Paul Romer (2)

On: COVID-19 Episode: N/A Date: May 15 2020 Background: Economist. Key Subjects: Finding a sustainable, less costly strategy to reduce virus transmission. Suppression: lock-down is very costly (economic costs not sustainable). Mitigation: transmission is very slow (> 1 year for

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Complexity — David Krakauer, Part 2

On: COVID-19 & Complex Time in Biology & Economics Transmission Series Ep. 2 Episode: 27 Date: April 14, 2020 Evolutionary biologist. Key Concepts Review of 5 Transmission Essays 005: Andrew Dobson on the Need for Disease Models which Capture Key

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The Drive with Peter Attia — Michael Osterholm

On: COVID-19—Lessons learned, challenges ahead, and reasons for optimism and concernEpisode: 102 Date: 31 March 2020Background: Infectious disease epidemiologist.Key Subjects:Infection.Until there is a vaccine, 50-70% of the population may end up getting infected.Math does not look good: 60% infected ->

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Estimating the number of infections and the impact of nonpharmaceutical interventions on COVID-19 in 11 European countries

By: Seth Flaxman, Swapnil Mishra, Axel Gandy, H Juliette T Unwin, Helen Coupland, Thomas A Mellan, Harrison Zhu, Tresnia Berah, Jeffrey W Eaton, Pablo N P Guzman, Nora Schmit, Lucia Callizo, Kylie E C Ainslie, Marc Baguelin, Isobel Blake, Adhiratha

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Evidence of initial success for China exiting COVID-19 social distancing policy after achieving containment

By: Kylie E C Ainslie, Caroline Walters, Han Fu, Sangeeta Bhatia, Haowei Wang, Marc Baguelin, Samir Bhatt, Adhiratha Boonyasiri, Olivia Boyd, Lorenzo Cattarino, Constanze Ciavarella, , Zulma Cucunubá, Gina CuomoDannenburg, Amy Dighe, Ilaria Dorigatti, Sabine L van Elsland, Rich FitzJohn,

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Evidence of initial success for China exiting COVID-19 social distancing policy after achieving containment

By: Kylie E C Ainslie, Caroline Walters, Han Fu, Sangeeta Bhatia, Haowei Wang, Marc Baguelin, Samir Bhatt, Adhiratha Boonyasiri, Olivia Boyd, Lorenzo Cattarino, Constanze Ciavarella, , Zulma Cucunubá, Gina CuomoDannenburg, Amy Dighe, Ilaria Dorigatti, Sabine L van Elsland, Rich FitzJohn,

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The Drive with Peter Attia — Peter Hotez (2)

On: COVID-19 (Continued)Episode: 99 Date: March 2020Background: Scientist, pediatrician, and advocate in the fields of global health, vaccinology, and neglected tropical disease control.Key Subjects:No real sense of actual number of cases (% of population infected).Geographical distribution of cases (density) probably

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Impact of non-pharmaceutical interventions (NPIs) to reduce COVID19 mortality and healthcare demand

By: Neil M Ferguson, Daniel Laydon, Gemma Nedjati-Gilani, Natsuko Imai, Kylie Ainslie, Marc Baguelin, Sangeeta Bhatia, Adhiratha Boonyasiri, Zulma Cucunubá, Gina Cuomo-Dannenburg, Amy Dighe, Ilaria Dorigatti, Han Fu, Katy Gaythorpe, Will Green, Arran Hamlet, Wes Hinsley, Lucy C Okell, Sabine

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The Drive with Peter Attia — Peter Hotez

On: COVID-19Episode: 97 Date: March 2020Background: Scientist, pediatrician, and advocate in the fields of global health, vaccinology, and neglected tropical disease control.Key Subjects:COVID-19.One of three 21st century coronavirus pandemics:SARS (2003), MERS (2012), COVID-19 (now).SARS-CoV2 is the virus; COVID-19 is the

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