416. How Do You Reopen a Country?

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🗓️ 30 April 2020

⏱️ 54 minutes

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We speak with a governor, a former C.D.C. director, a pandemic forecaster, a hard-charging pharmacist, and a pair of economists — who say it’s all about the incentives. (Pandemillions, anyone?)

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0:00.0	Hey there, it's Stephen Dubner.
0:04.8	Before today's episode of a couple quick announcements, number one, a few months ago,
0:09.5	we tried something different.
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0:39.0	Also, announcement number two.
0:41.4	Something the COVID-19 pandemic has us wondering is, what's college going to look like this
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