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41. Dr. Bapu Jena on Why Freakonomics Is the Best Medicine

People I (Mostly) Admire

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Do You Know if You Have a Birthday?

There was and has been a lot of concern about understanding how the disease spreads. You could do a random ie trial, but how in the world can you either force people to hang out with their friends and family or prohibit them from hanging out with ther friends and family? Never going to get that done in a million years. And so i saidwell, why couldn't we look at insurance data, where we know information about an individual's birthday?, he says. "You just follow these households out two weeks later and see if they have a high rate of cove nineteend ses"

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