Cove in 19 is very chaotic, starcastic spread. It has a sort of right tail distribution. Once a seed load gets above a certain threshold, no amount of lock down can contain it. We don't really have broad scale surveillance data from that time but i think it will be something for economic economists and others to to mull over.
When it comes to the COVID-19 vaccination, is the risk of myocarditis greater than the benefit to a healthy male teen? Is natural immunity really better than vaccination--and were we right to mask the kids? Dr. Vinay Prasad of the University of California San Francisco talks with EconTalk host Russ Roberts about what we learned and didn't learn from COVID so far and how we should handle a pandemic going forward.