Episode 813
Covid control and the economy
Are there financial benefits to lockdowns?
Naked Scientists, In Short Special Editions Podcast · The Naked Scientists
November 6, 20206m 35s
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Show Notes
There's been lots of talk over the last several months over how best to both protect people from coronavirus and protect the economy, and economist Quentin Grafton from Australian National University has been crunching the numbers. Back in September, he combined epidemiological models of how the virus spreads with models of the Australian economy, and found results that lockdown-sceptics might consider surprising, as he told Eva Higginbotham... Like this podcast? Please help us by supporting the Naked Scientists
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