Putting COVID-19 News in Context

The Brian Lehrer Show | May 20, 2020

Emily Oster, economics professor at Brown University, author of several books and creator of the website COVID-Explained, talks about her new website which helps to contextualize COVID-19 related news, and takes a closer look at COVID in children, and parenting during the pandemic.

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