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Last episode we met two Princeton political scientists who are bad at virology. Today we learn that they are also bad at political science.

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”
• Jonathan Howard’s “We Want Them Infected”
• How the Pandemic Defeated America
• COVID-19: examining the effectiveness of non-pharmaceutical interventions
• US State Restrictions and Excess COVID-19 Pandemic Deaths
• Impact of non-pharmaceutical interventions
• Policy Interventions, Social Distancing, and SARS-CoV-2 Transmission
• The Impact of Vaccines and Behavior on US Cumulative Deaths
• Pro-Trump counties now have far higher COVID death rates
• Report for the Scottish COVID-19 Inquiry
• The Effectiveness Of Government Masking Mandates
• School closures during COVID-19
• COVID-19–Related School Closures
• The Effects of School Closures on COVID‑19
• Higher COVID-19 Deaths with Later School Closure in the United States
• Reopening America’s Schools
• Reading literacy decline in Europe
• DeSantis vs. Newsom
• Red States Have Seen Less Learning Loss
• Political partisanship and mobility restriction
• Republicans Aren’t New To The Anti-Vaxx Movement
• KFF poll on anti-vaxx beliefs

Thanks to Mindseye for our theme song!

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

Thanks to Mindseye for our theme song!