
S5 Ep39: The political economy of lockdown
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The Epidemiology of the Pandemic
Rightthiss all starts off with a measure of the intensity of the pandemic at that point in each country. But surely, if you're doing that by reported deaths, which you did, that also depends on how free the medior is. So it's a far from straightforward situation to be studying from a kind of empirical point of view. How did yethought that out? The so initially what we looked at the relationship between an increase in death and the responses by government and citizens o what tim was describing as responsiveness. And we found that across all countries, there was an average, a high level of responsiveness by both government and citizens. As the death reight increases in their
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