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Radical Uncertainty - Mervyn King

The Joe Walker Podcast

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The Misuse of Covid-19 Models

The models that may and Anderson constructed were very good for teaching purposes because they showed the shape of an epidemic. The trouble when it comes to Covid-19 was that there were key parameters that we simply didn't know about, he says. Governments have the unenviable task of navigating between two very risky sets of rocks one is the death rate from Covid-19 and the other are the enormous economic cost of shutting down the economy.

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