"In Covid's Wake" Part 1: Lying About Lockdowns
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Two political scientists look back at a deadly pandemic and ask, "could we have done even less?"

**Where to find us: **

• Peter's newsletter)
• Peter's other podcast, 5-4)
• Mike's other podcast, Maintenance Phase)

Sources:

• Lawrence Wright’s “The Plague Year”)
• The 2019 WHO report)                
• 30‐day mortality following COVID‐19)
• COVID-19: examining the effectiveness of non-pharmaceutical interventions)
• Policy Interventions, Social Distancing, and SARS-CoV-2 Transmission in the United States)
• What we can learn from Sweden)
• A review of the Swedish policy response to COVID-19)
• How Sweden approached the COVID‐19 pandemic)
• The first eight months of Sweden’s COVID‐19 strategy)
• The Swedish COVID-19 Response Is a Disaster)
• Excess mortality in Denmark, Finland, Norway and Sweden during the COVID-19 pandemic )
• Comparing drivers of pandemic economic decline 2020)
• How Sweden approached the COVID-19 pandemic)
• Comparisons of all-cause mortality between European countries and regions)
• Jonathan Howard’s “We Want Them Infected.”)
• Deaths: Leading Causes for 2021)
• Stay-at-home orders associate with subsequent decreases in COVID-19 cases and fatalities in the United States) 
• Did the Timing of State Mandated Lockdown Affect the Spread of COVID-19? )
• US State Restrictions and Excess COVID-19 Pandemic Deaths)

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