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https://fsi.stanford.edu/news/questioning-conventional-wisdom-covid-19-crisis-dr-jay-bhattacharya
April 5, 2020
Jay Bhattacharya: Questioning Conventional Wisdom of the COVID-19 Crisis
Jay Bhattacharya is a professor of medicine at Stanford Medicine and a core faculty member at Stanford Health Policy. His March 24, 2020, commentary in the Wall Street Journal questions the premise that “coronavirus would kill millions without shelter-in-place orders and quarantines.” In the article he suggests that “there’s little evidence to confirm that premise—and projections of the death toll could plausibly be orders of magnitude too high.”...