What Have We Learned After 2 Years of COVID: Lockdowns Don’t Work

What Have We Learned After 2 Years of COVID: Lockdowns Don’t Work
People visit Clearwater Beach after Governor Ron DeSantis opened the beaches at 7am, in Clearwater, Fla., on May 4, 2020. Mike Ehrmann/Getty Images
Stephen Moore
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Last week, University of Chicago economist Casey Mulligan, COVID expert Phil Kerpen, and I released a study in the National Bureau of Economic Research that graded the states on their COVID performance. The study’s findings have spread throughout the country at warp speed. The Wall Street Journal, Fox News, New York Post, Daily Mail, and even media in Europe and Japan have picked up the findings.

Stephen Moore
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Stephen Moore is a senior fellow at the Heritage Foundation, chief economist at FreedomWorks, and co-founder of the Committee to Unleash Prosperity. He served as a senior economic adviser to Donald Trump. His latest book is “Govzilla: How the Relentless Growth of Government Is Impoverishing America.”
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