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Episode 151: John Ioannidis talks about the bungled response to COVID-19

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The Importance of Better Data in the Face of a Pandemic

In March of 2020, really early on in the pandemic, you wrote a piece questioning the highly touted 3.4% fatality rate that was associated with COVID-19 at the time. Well let's fast forward to 2019. Do you remember what you first heard reports coming out of China about the virus? What was in your mind when you first heard about it? It was really worrisome, but what was even more worrisome was that lots of pieces in that story did not make full sense.

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