Dr. Jay Bhattacharya

Tetragrammaton with Rick Rubin

Rick Rubin

Society & Culture, Arts, Philosophy

4.6 • 908 Ratings

🗓️ 19 June 2024

⏱️ 100 minutes

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Dr. Jay Bhattacharya is a professor of medicine, economics, and health research policy at Stanford University, where he is also the director of Stanford's Center for Demography and Economics of Health and Aging. After dedicating much of his career to studying the economics of health care, when the COVID-19 crisis began, Dr. Bhattacharya shifted his research focus to the epidemiology of COVID-19, the lethality of COVID-19 infection, and the effectiveness and effects of lockdown policies. This led him to co-author an open letter, The Great Barrington Declaration, which advocated for a lift of restrictions on lower-risk groups to develop herd immunity. He is also the co-author of the widely acclaimed textbook Health Economics, a staple in undergraduate and graduate curricula worldwide. He holds four degrees from Stanford: a BA, an AM, an MD, and a PhD in economics. ------ Thank you to the sponsors that fuel our podcast and our team: Lucy https://lucy.co/tetra ------ LMNT Electrolytes https://drinklmnt.com/tetra ------ Squarespace https://squarespace.com/tetra ------ House of Macadamias https://www.houseofmacadamias.com/tetra

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0:00.0	Tetragrammaton
0:02.0	Tetragrammaton
0:05.0	When I was 4, we moved, and we'd go back every four or five years to go visit.
0:27.6	I still have very fond memories when I was.
0:29.6	I think the first was just this, when I was eight, was this impression of poverty, like what that meant.
0:35.6	Because I'm now an American kid, eight years old.
0:38.8	My main memories of the United States.
0:41.2	We go back and there was this like this monsoon,
0:45.2	but the streets are flooded.
0:47.0	There's homeless families, literally, like families,
0:49.1	like little kids, dogs, moms and dads in the street.
0:53.4	And I was like, we're going down some rickshaw
0:56.2	to get to the station.
0:57.4	And I was like, looking around asking my parents,
0:58.9	what is this?
0:59.7	And that was one of my first impressions
1:01.9	of what life was like for poor people and poor countries.
1:05.3	You know, like we had a small family in the United States
1:08.2	and you go to Calcutta and all of a sudden I got aunts, I've
1:11.1	got uncles, I'm like rooted and connected to this vast network of people.
1:15.6	And I just, they're just instantly accepted, you know, this little kid that's coming back
1:19.1	because of my mom and dad, of course.
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