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#254 – Jay Bhattacharya: The Case Against Lockdowns

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What's the Right Response?

The question that's interesting here is about the future too. So COVID has very specific characteristics, like you mentioned, about the curve of the death rate based on the virus' biology. But other viruses may not be this way and lockdown could be a good idea for them. Or maybe another way to ask that is imagine a virus that's 10 times deadlier. What's the right response? I mean, I think it's always going to be focus protection but the group that needs the focus protection may change depending on the biology of the virus.

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