In this episode, Dr. Bhattacharya and I discuss various aspects of the Covid-19 pandemic: the differences between the Alpha and Delta strains, whether vaccine policy is more about paternalism than public health, the efficacy of both mask wearing and the vaccines, the vulnerability of (especially young) children to the virus, and much more.

Dr. Jay Bhattacharya is Professor of Medicine at Stanford Medical School, Senior Fellow at the Stanford Institute for Economics Research, and Professor, by Courtesy, of Economics. He holds an M.D. and a Ph.D. in Economics, both from Stanford University.

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