How Do You Reopen a Country? Yale Healthcare Economist Zack Cooper Responds

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May 3, 2020

Zack Cooper recently joined a group of experts hosted by Stephen J. Dubner on Freakonomics Radio to discuss the conditions necessary for safely reopening the U.S. and its economy following closures during the COVID-19 pandemic.  Transcripts and a podcast of the conversation are available at this link: Freakonomics Radio: How Do You Reopen a Country? (EP. 416).

Contributers for this podcast include:

  • Gina Raimondo, Governor of Rhode Island
  • Julie Gerberding, former Director of the C.D.C. and current chief patient office for Merck
  • Chris Murry, Director of the Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation (I.H.M.E.)
  • Steve Levitt, Freakonomics co-author and economist at the University of Chicago
  • Zack Cooper, Associate Professor of Health Policy and of Economics at Yale University
  • Steve Chen, Practicing pharmacist and Associate Dean at the University of Southern California’s School of Pharmacy