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COVID Lessons Learned

A Retrospective After Four Years

March 15, 2024

By Scott W. Atlas, Steve H. Hanke, Philip G. Kerpen, Casey B. Mulligan

Originally published by Committee to Unleash Prosperity (Washington, D.C.) Fri. March 15, 2024

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Executive Summary

This report reviews the major policy errors and lessons learned during the COVID pandemic from a balanced perspective that includes health, economic, educational, and civil liberty considerations. We outline ten key lessons that must be learned to avoid mistaken policy responses to future pandemics and other crises.

Scott W. Atlas is a Senior Advisor at the Independent Institute, host of its podcast “The Independent with Scott Atlas”, author of A Plague Upon Our House, and the Robert Wesson Senior Fellow in the Hoover Institution at Stanford University.

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Steve H. Hanke is a Senior Fellow at the Independent Institute and Professor of Applied Economics and Founder and Co-Director of the Institute for Applied Economics, Global Health, and the Study of Business Enterprise at Johns Hopkins University.

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Philip G. Kerpen is President of the Committee to Unleash Prosperity and Founder of American Commitment

Casey B. Mulligan is Professor in Economics and the College at the University of Chicago and Senior Fellow at the Committee to Unleash Prosperity. He served as Chief Economist of the White House Council of Economic Advisers in 2018-2019.

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