
Policy@McCombs with Alex Tabarrok
Policy@McCombs
Is There a Lesson From the Pandemic?
I've been a longtime critic of the FDA You know pointing out that there's an invisible graveyard, right? Which is when the FDA delays a good drug then people die who would have lived but they're buried in this invisible graveyard hard to see. So I think it was pretty surprising actually that at least many of the economists who were publicly you who were speaking publicly about this were becoming radicalized as the pandemic got longer and longer and longer They became more radicalized not just the economist, but the government too. There are narrow lessons and people are probably taking it too broad.
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