The Varying International Responses to Covid-19, and the U.S. Stimulus Package
After Hours
TED Audio Collective / Youngme Moon, Mihir Desai, & Felix Oberholzer-Gee
4.8 • 1.4K Ratings
🗓️ 1 April 2020
⏱️ 37 minutes
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Summary
Felix Oberholzer-Gee and Mihir Desai discuss how and why countries have differed in their responses to Covid-19, with a particular emphasis on their public health and economic responses. They also debate whether or not the recent U.S. stimulus package, including the bailouts, is designed appropriately.
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| 0:27.7 | HBR presents. Hello everyone.'re listening to after hours. I'm me here and I'm Felix and |
| 0:48.2 | unfortunately we are missing our fearless leader young me yes. Yes, so true. |
| 0:52.8 | We will try to kind of persevere without her, |
| 0:55.2 | but she will be back next week, |
| 0:57.1 | but we'll try to do this episode without it. |
| 0:58.7 | Which of course is a totally impossible task. |
| 1:02.3 | We'll do our best. Felix, maybe I'll get started. totally impossible task. Exactly. |
| 1:03.0 | We'll do our best. |
| 1:04.0 | Felix, maybe I'll get started by talking a little bit about this kind of byproduct of the |
| 1:08.7 | COVID-19 episode, which is we have this amazing international variation in the way countries have responded |
| 1:16.3 | both from a public health perspective and from an economic perspective. |
| 1:20.2 | So I'd love to just do a little like around the world in 15 minutes to try to understand the best responses to these crises. |
| 1:26.4 | And I brought a topic also not surprisingly related to COVID-19 and that is the stimulus package. Last time when we spoke and after hours we were |
| 1:36.3 | not quite sure what it would include and now we know and I thought it would be great |
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