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What happened with Covid NPIs?

What happened with Covid NPIs?

Learning the right lessons from 2020

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Matthew Yglesias
Nov 01, 2023
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I know there’s a lot going on, but I thought today would be a good time to debate the hottest policy topic of three years ago: how to fight the SARS-Cov-2 pandemic.

As Nate Silver wrote a month ago, after-action reports on the pandemic show a very clear pattern of blue states having lower mortality than red states. But examining this in more detail show…

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