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Plenary Session

3.76 COVID-19 Transmission in Schools with Dr. Christopher Whaley and Dr. Neeraj Sood

Plenary Session

Vinay Prasad, MD MPH

Health, Medicine, Policy, Oncology, Science & Medicine

4.7789 Ratings

🗓️ 14 May 2021

⏱️ 43 minutes

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Summary

On today's episode, we invite Dr. Chris Whaley of RAND and Dr. Neeraj Sood of the USC Price School of Public Policy to discuss their new paper titled "Back to School: The Effect of School Visits During COVID-19 on COVID-19 Transmission", out now in the National Bureau of Economic Research. Back to School: doi.org/10.3386/w28645 Back us on Patreon! www.patreon.com/plenarysession Check out our YouTube channel: www.youtube.com/channel/UCUibd0E2kdF9N9e-EmIbUew

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Welcome to plenary session.

0:07.0

I'm Dr. Vinay Prasad. I'm an associate professor at the University of California, San Francisco.

0:13.0

My interests are medicine, hematology, oncology, and health policy, and that's what you're going to get on this podcast.

0:23.7

This week, we got a great episode in store for you.

0:26.4

We've got an interview, and I think you're going to really like this.

0:30.0

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0:59.8

And with that, let's start the show.

1:03.0

All right, I'm back in Plenary Session, joined by two economists, Christopher Whaley and

1:11.4

Nierish sued. And they're the authors of a new paper entitled Back to School, the Effect

1:15.5

of School visits during COVID-19 on COVID-19 transmission. Gentlemen, Christopher and Nierich,

1:20.4

it's a pleasure to have you on the podcast. Thank you. Thanks. Thanks. That's great to be here.

1:26.2

So why don't I, you know, before we get started in this paper, and of course, you know,

1:29.3

schools is all, it's the discussion that everyone wants to have and I've been having it on this,

1:33.3

on this podcast for a while.

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